crocodylia

Questions about crocodylia

What does crocodylia mean?

crocodylia means "crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials".

How many syllables are in crocodylia?

crocodylia has 5 syllables and divides as cro-co-dy-li-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 crocodylia?

Close synonyms include order Crocodylia, Crocodilia, order Crocodilia. 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 crocodylia a common word?

crocodylia 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.