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say it: guh-LAH-puh-gohz
galapagos is a noun meaning "a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life". It is pronounced /ɡəˈlɑpəɡoʊz/ — guh-LAH-puh-gohz. It carries one recorded sense.
a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for galapagos come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.