catalufa

Questions about catalufa

What does catalufa mean?

catalufa means "brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters".

How many syllables are in catalufa?

catalufa has 4 syllables and divides as ca-ta-lu-fa 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 catalufa?

Close synonyms include Priacanthus arenatus. 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 catalufa a common word?

catalufa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.