cercocebus

Questions about cercocebus

What does cercocebus mean?

cercocebus means "mangabeys".

How many syllables are in cercocebus?

cercocebus has 4 syllables and divides as cer-co-ce-bus 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 cercocebus?

Close synonyms include genus Cercocebus. 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 cercocebus a common word?

cercocebus 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.