crassostrea

Questions about crassostrea

What does crassostrea mean?

crassostrea means "Virginia oysters".

How many syllables are in crassostrea?

crassostrea has 4 syllables and divides as cras-so-stre-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 crassostrea?

Close synonyms include genus Crassostrea. 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 crassostrea a common word?

crassostrea 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.