homarus

Questions about homarus

What does homarus mean?

homarus means "type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters".

How many syllables are in homarus?

homarus has 3 syllables and divides as ho-ma-rus 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 homarus?

Close synonyms include genus Homarus. 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 homarus a common word?

homarus 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.