osteichthyes

Questions about osteichthyes

What does osteichthyes mean?

osteichthyes means "a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage".

How many syllables are in osteichthyes?

osteichthyes has 3 syllables and divides as o-steich-thyes 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 osteichthyes?

Close synonyms include class Osteichthyes. 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 osteichthyes a common word?

osteichthyes 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.