caenolestes

Questions about caenolestes

What does caenolestes mean?

caenolestes means "type genus of the family Caenolestidae".

How many syllables are in caenolestes?

caenolestes has 4 syllables and divides as cae-no-le-stes 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 caenolestes?

Close synonyms include genus Caenolestes. 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 caenolestes a common word?

caenolestes 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.