mudspringer

1. 1.

   found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins

   Synonymsmudskipper

   Broadergoby

   Part ofPeriophthalmus

Other forms of mudspringer

plural

mudspringers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mudspringer

What does mudspringer mean?

mudspringer means "found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins".

How many syllables are in mudspringer?

mudspringer has 3 syllables: mud-sprin-ger. The stress falls on "mud".

What is another word for mudspringer?

Close synonyms include mudskipper. 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 mudspringer a common word?

mudspringer 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.