chelonia

Other forms of chelonia

plural

chelonias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chelonia

What does chelonia mean?

chelonia means "green turtles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chelonia?

chelonia has 4 syllables: che-lo-ni-a. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for chelonia?

Close synonyms include genus Chelonia, order Chelonia, Testudinata, order Testudinata, Testudines. 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 chelonia a common word?

chelonia 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.