hydroid

Other forms of hydroid

plural

hydroids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydroid

What does hydroid mean?

hydroid means "colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant".

How many syllables are in hydroid?

hydroid has 2 syllables: hy-droid. The stress falls on "hy".

What is another word for hydroid?

Close synonyms include hydrozoan. 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 hydroid a common word?

hydroid 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.