echeneididae

Questions about echeneididae

What does echeneididae mean?

echeneididae means "fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships".

How many syllables are in echeneididae?

echeneididae has 5 syllables and divides as e-che-nei-di-dae 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 echeneididae?

Close synonyms include family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae. 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 echeneididae a common word?

echeneididae 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.