chrysolophus

Questions about chrysolophus

What does chrysolophus mean?

chrysolophus means "golden pheasants".

How many syllables are in chrysolophus?

chrysolophus has 4 syllables and divides as chry-so-lo-phus 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 chrysolophus?

Close synonyms include genus Chrysolophus. 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 chrysolophus a common word?

chrysolophus 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.