hyperoodon

1. 1.

   bottle-nosed whales

   Synonymsgenus Hyperoodon

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofZiphiidae

Other forms of hyperoodon

plural

hyperoodons·

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 hyperoodon

What does hyperoodon mean?

hyperoodon means "bottle-nosed whales".

How many syllables are in hyperoodon?

hyperoodon has 4 syllables: hy-pe-roo-don. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for hyperoodon?

Close synonyms include genus Hyperoodon. 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 hyperoodon a common word?

hyperoodon 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.