balanus

Questions about balanus

What does balanus mean?

balanus means "type genus of the family Balanidae".

How many syllables are in balanus?

balanus has 3 syllables and divides as ba-la-nus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for balanus?

Close synonyms include genus Balanus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balanus a common word?

balanus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.