nudibranch

Questions about nudibranch

What does nudibranch mean?

nudibranch means "any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body".

How many syllables are in nudibranch?

nudibranch has 3 syllables and divides as nu-di-branch 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 nudibranch?

Close synonyms include sea slug. 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 nudibranch a common word?

nudibranch 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.