gonorhynchus

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   slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth

   Synonymsgenus Gonorhynchus

   Broaderfish genus

   Part ofGonorhynchidae

Other forms of gonorhynchus

plural

gonorhynchuses·

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.

Questions about gonorhynchus

What does gonorhynchus mean?

gonorhynchus means "slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth".

How many syllables are in gonorhynchus?

gonorhynchus has 4 syllables: go-nor-hyn-chus. The stress falls on "nor".

What is another word for gonorhynchus?

Close synonyms include genus Gonorhynchus. 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 gonorhynchus a common word?

gonorhynchus 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.