chlorophthalmidae

Questions about chlorophthalmidae

What does chlorophthalmidae mean?

chlorophthalmidae means "small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes".

How many syllables are in chlorophthalmidae?

chlorophthalmidae has 5 syllables and divides as chlo-roph-thal-mi-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 chlorophthalmidae?

Close synonyms include family Chlorophthalmidae. 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 chlorophthalmidae a common word?

chlorophthalmidae 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.