holothurian

Questions about holothurian

What does holothurian mean?

holothurian means "echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders".

How many syllables are in holothurian?

holothurian has 5 syllables and divides as ho-lo-thu-ri-an 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 holothurian?

Close synonyms include sea cucumber. 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 holothurian a common word?

holothurian 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.