lepisosteus

Questions about lepisosteus

What does lepisosteus mean?

lepisosteus means "type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars".

How many syllables are in lepisosteus?

lepisosteus has 5 syllables and divides as le-pi-so-ste-us 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 lepisosteus?

Close synonyms include genus Lepisosteus. 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 lepisosteus a common word?

lepisosteus 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.