elephas

Questions about elephas

What does elephas mean?

elephas means "type genus of the family Elephantidae".

How many syllables are in elephas?

elephas has 3 syllables and divides as e-le-phas 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 elephas?

Close synonyms include genus Elephas. 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 elephas a common word?

elephas 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.