brachyurous

1. 1.

   of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura

Questions about brachyurous

What does brachyurous mean?

brachyurous means "of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura".

How many syllables are in brachyurous?

brachyurous has 3 syllables and divides as bra-chyu-rous 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.

Is brachyurous a common word?

brachyurous 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.