macrocheira

Questions about macrocheira

What does macrocheira mean?

macrocheira means "giant crabs of Japan".

How many syllables are in macrocheira?

macrocheira has 4 syllables and divides as ma-cro-chei-ra 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 macrocheira?

Close synonyms include genus Macrocheira. 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 macrocheira a common word?

macrocheira 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.