bowfin

Questions about bowfin

What does bowfin mean?

bowfin means "primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America".

How many syllables are in bowfin?

bowfin has 2 syllables and divides as bow-fin 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 bowfin?

Close synonyms include grindle, dogfish, Amia calva. 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 bowfin a common word?

bowfin 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.