mytilid

1. 1.

   marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones

   Synonymsmarine mussel

   Broadermussel

   Narroweredible mussel

   Part ofMytilidae

Other forms of mytilid

plural

mytilids·

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 mytilid

What does mytilid mean?

mytilid means "marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones".

How many syllables are in mytilid?

mytilid has 3 syllables: my-ti-lid. The stress falls on "my".

What is another word for mytilid?

Close synonyms include marine mussel. 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 mytilid a common word?

mytilid 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.