isospondyli

Questions about isospondyli

What does isospondyli mean?

isospondyli means "most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon".

How many syllables are in isospondyli?

isospondyli has 5 syllables and divides as i-so-spon-dy-li 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 isospondyli?

Close synonyms include order Isospondyli. 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 isospondyli a common word?

isospondyli 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.