grus

Other forms of grus

plural

gruses·

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 grus

What does grus mean?

grus means "a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grus?

grus has 1 syllable: grus.

What is another word for grus?

Close synonyms include Crane, genus Grus. 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 grus a common word?

grus 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.