holocephalan

Questions about holocephalan

What does holocephalan mean?

holocephalan means "fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail".

How many syllables are in holocephalan?

holocephalan has 5 syllables and divides as ho-lo-ce-pha-lan 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 holocephalan?

Close synonyms include holocephalian. 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 holocephalan a common word?

holocephalan 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.