meriones

Questions about meriones

What does meriones mean?

meriones means "a genus of Cricetidae".

How many syllables are in meriones?

meriones has 3 syllables and divides as me-rio-nes 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 meriones?

Close synonyms include genus Meriones. 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 meriones a common word?

meriones is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.