megatherian

Questions about megatherian

What does megatherian mean?

megatherian means "a large extinct ground sloth".

How many syllables are in megatherian?

megatherian has 5 syllables and divides as me-ga-the-ri-an 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 megatherian?

Close synonyms include megatheriid, megatherian mammal. 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 megatherian a common word?

megatherian 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.