hyalospongiae

Questions about hyalospongiae

What does hyalospongiae mean?

hyalospongiae means "sponges with siliceous spicules that have six rays; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers".

How many syllables are in hyalospongiae?

hyalospongiae has 5 syllables and divides as hya-lo-spon-gi-ae 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 hyalospongiae?

Close synonyms include class Hyalospongiae. 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 hyalospongiae a common word?

hyalospongiae 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.