mustelid

Other forms of mustelid

plural

mustelids·

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 mustelid

What does mustelid mean?

mustelid means "fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals".

How many syllables are in mustelid?

mustelid has 3 syllables: mu-ste-lid. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mustelid?

Close synonyms include musteline mammal, musteline. 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 mustelid a common word?

mustelid 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.