fissurella

Questions about fissurella

What does fissurella mean?

fissurella means "type genus of the family Fissurellidae: keyhole limpets".

How many syllables are in fissurella?

fissurella has 4 syllables and divides as fis-su-rel-la 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 fissurella?

Close synonyms include genus Fissurella. 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 fissurella a common word?

fissurella 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.