nanomia

1. 1.

   small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey

   Broadersiphonophore

   Part ofgenus Nanomia

Other forms of nanomia

plural

nanomias·

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 nanomia

What does nanomia mean?

nanomia means "small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey".

How many syllables are in nanomia?

nanomia has 4 syllables: na-no-mi-a. The stress falls on "no".

Is nanomia a common word?

nanomia 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.