ctenophore

Other forms of ctenophore

plural

ctenophores·

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 ctenophore

What does ctenophore mean?

ctenophore means "biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb".

How many syllables are in ctenophore?

ctenophore has 3 syllables and divides as cte-no-phore 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 ctenophore?

Close synonyms include comb jelly. 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 ctenophore a common word?

ctenophore 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.