ophiuroidea

Questions about ophiuroidea

What does ophiuroidea mean?

ophiuroidea means "brittle stars and basket stars".

How many syllables are in ophiuroidea?

ophiuroidea has 6 syllables and divides as o-phi-u-ro-i-dea 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 ophiuroidea?

Close synonyms include class Ophiuroidea. 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 ophiuroidea a common word?

ophiuroidea 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.