chondrichthian

Questions about chondrichthian

What does chondrichthian mean?

chondrichthian means "fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified".

How many syllables are in chondrichthian?

chondrichthian has 4 syllables and divides as chon-drich-thi-an 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 chondrichthian?

Close synonyms include cartilaginous fish. 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 chondrichthian a common word?

chondrichthian 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.