epinephelus

Questions about epinephelus

What does epinephelus mean?

epinephelus means "genus of groupers or sea bass".

How many syllables are in epinephelus?

epinephelus has 5 syllables and divides as e-pi-ne-phe-lus 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 epinephelus?

Close synonyms include genus Epinephelus. 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 epinephelus a common word?

epinephelus 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.