chondrichthyes

Questions about chondrichthyes

What does chondrichthyes mean?

chondrichthyes means "cartilaginous fishes".

How many syllables are in chondrichthyes?

chondrichthyes has 3 syllables and divides as chon-drich-thyes 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 chondrichthyes?

Close synonyms include class Chondrichthyes. 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 chondrichthyes a common word?

chondrichthyes 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.