hydrodamalis

Questions about hydrodamalis

What does hydrodamalis mean?

hydrodamalis means "a genus of the family Dugongidae comprising only Steller's sea cow".

How many syllables are in hydrodamalis?

hydrodamalis has 5 syllables and divides as hy-dro-da-ma-lis 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 hydrodamalis?

Close synonyms include genus Hydrodamalis. 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 hydrodamalis a common word?

hydrodamalis 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.