hawksbill

Questions about hawksbill

What does hawksbill mean?

hawksbill means "pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell".

How many syllables are in hawksbill?

hawksbill has 2 syllables and divides as hawks-bill 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 hawksbill?

Close synonyms include hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. 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 hawksbill a common word?

hawksbill 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.