carcharhinidae

Questions about carcharhinidae

What does carcharhinidae mean?

carcharhinidae means "largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks".

How many syllables are in carcharhinidae?

carcharhinidae has 5 syllables and divides as car-char-hi-ni-dae 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 carcharhinidae?

Close synonyms include family Carcharhinidae. 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 carcharhinidae a common word?

carcharhinidae 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.