costia

Questions about costia

What does costia mean?

costia means "a flagellate that is the cause of the frequently fatal fish disease costiasis".

How many syllables are in costia?

costia has 3 syllables and divides as co-sti-a 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 costia?

Close synonyms include Costia necatrix. 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 costia a common word?

costia 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.