craniate

Other forms of craniate

plural

craniates·

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 craniate

What does craniate mean?

craniate means "animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium".

How many syllables are in craniate?

craniate has 3 syllables and divides as cra-ni-ate 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 craniate?

Close synonyms include vertebrate. 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 craniate a common word?

craniate 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.