cnidarian

Other forms of cnidarian

plural

cnidarians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cnidarian

What does cnidarian mean?

cnidarian means "radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms".

How many syllables are in cnidarian?

cnidarian has 4 syllables: cni-da-ri-an. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for cnidarian?

Close synonyms include coelenterate. 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 cnidarian a common word?

cnidarian 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.