malacostraca

Questions about malacostraca

What does malacostraca mean?

malacostraca means "largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies".

How many syllables are in malacostraca?

malacostraca has 5 syllables and divides as ma-la-co-stra-ca 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 malacostraca?

Close synonyms include subclass Malacostraca. 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 malacostraca a common word?

malacostraca 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.