hexanchidae

Questions about hexanchidae

What does hexanchidae mean?

hexanchidae means "primitive sharks".

How many syllables are in hexanchidae?

hexanchidae has 4 syllables and divides as hex-an-chi-dae 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 hexanchidae?

Close synonyms include family Hexanchidae. 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 hexanchidae a common word?

hexanchidae 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.