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: cra-ni-ate. The stress falls on "cra".

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.