clinid

Questions about clinid

What does clinid mean?

clinid means "mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds".

How many syllables are in clinid?

clinid has 2 syllables and divides as cli-nid 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 clinid?

Close synonyms include clinid 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 clinid a common word?

clinid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.