noctiluca

What does noctiluca mean?

noctiluca means "large bioluminescent marine protozoan".

How many syllables are in noctiluca?

noctiluca has 4 syllables and divides as noc-ti-lu-ca 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 noctiluca?

Close synonyms include Noctiluca miliaris. 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 noctiluca a common word?

noctiluca 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for noctiluca come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.