haliotis

Questions about haliotis

What does haliotis mean?

haliotis means "type genus of the family Haliotidae".

How many syllables are in haliotis?

haliotis has 4 syllables and divides as ha-li-o-tis 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 haliotis?

Close synonyms include genus Haliotis. 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 haliotis a common word?

haliotis 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.