crustacea

Questions about crustacea

What does crustacea mean?

crustacea means "class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas".

How many syllables are in crustacea?

crustacea has 4 syllables and divides as cru-sta-ce-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 crustacea?

Close synonyms include class Crustacea. 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 crustacea a common word?

crustacea 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.