butterflyfish

Questions about butterflyfish

What does butterflyfish mean?

butterflyfish means "tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins".

How many syllables are in butterflyfish?

butterflyfish has 4 syllables and divides as but-ter-fly-fish 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 butterflyfish?

Close synonyms include flying gurnard, flying robin. 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 butterflyfish a common word?

butterflyfish 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.