megatherium

Questions about megatherium

What does megatherium mean?

megatherium means "type genus of the Megatheriidae".

How many syllables are in megatherium?

megatherium has 5 syllables and divides as me-ga-the-ri-um 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 megatherium?

Close synonyms include genus Megatherium. 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 megatherium a common word?

megatherium 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.