brachiopod

Other forms of brachiopod

plural

brachiopods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brachiopod

What does brachiopod mean?

brachiopod means "marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brachiopod?

brachiopod has 4 syllables: bra-chi-o-pod. The stress falls on "bra". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪkiəˌpɑd/.

What is another word for brachiopod?

Close synonyms include lamp shell, lampshell, brachiopodous. 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 brachiopod a common word?

brachiopod 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.

What rhymes with brachiopod?

6 words rhyme with brachiopod. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.