gorgonian

Other forms of gorgonian

plural

gorgonians·

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 gorgonian

What does gorgonian mean?

gorgonian means "corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton".

How many syllables are in gorgonian?

gorgonian has 4 syllables: gor-go-ni-an. The stress falls on "go". In IPA it is /ɡɔɹˈɡoʊniən/.

What is another word for gorgonian?

Close synonyms include gorgonian coral. 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 gorgonian a common word?

gorgonian 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.

What rhymes with gorgonian?

1 word rhymes with gorgonian. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.