coelenterate

Other forms of coelenterate

plural

coelenterates·

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 coelenterate

What does coelenterate mean?

coelenterate 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 coelenterate?

coelenterate has 5 syllables: co-e-len-te-rate. The stress falls on "len".

What is another word for coelenterate?

Close synonyms include cnidarian. 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 coelenterate a common word?

coelenterate 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.