euphausiacea

Questions about euphausiacea

What does euphausiacea mean?

euphausiacea means "small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill".

How many syllables are in euphausiacea?

euphausiacea has 7 syllables and divides as e-u-pha-u-si-a-cea 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 euphausiacea?

Close synonyms include order Euphausiacea. 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 euphausiacea a common word?

euphausiacea 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.