mercenaria

Questions about mercenaria

What does mercenaria mean?

mercenaria means "a genus of Veneridae".

How many syllables are in mercenaria?

mercenaria has 5 syllables and divides as mer-ce-na-ri-a 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 mercenaria?

Close synonyms include genus Mercenaria. 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 mercenaria a common word?

mercenaria 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.