oligochaete

Questions about oligochaete

What does oligochaete mean?

oligochaete means "hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body".

How many syllables are in oligochaete?

oligochaete has 5 syllables and divides as o-li-go-cha-ete 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 oligochaete?

Close synonyms include oligochaete worm. 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 oligochaete a common word?

oligochaete 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.