gomphotherium

Questions about gomphotherium

What does gomphotherium mean?

gomphotherium means "type genus of the Gomphotheriidae".

How many syllables are in gomphotherium?

gomphotherium has 5 syllables and divides as gom-pho-the-ri-um 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 gomphotherium?

Close synonyms include genus Gomphotherium. 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 gomphotherium a common word?

gomphotherium 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.