osteoglossidae

1. 1.

   a family of large fishes that live in freshwater; includes bandfish and bonytongues

   Synonymsfamily Osteoglossidae

   Broaderfish family

   Part ofOsteoglossiformes

Other forms of osteoglossidae

plural

osteoglossidaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osteoglossidae

What does osteoglossidae mean?

osteoglossidae means "a family of large fishes that live in freshwater; includes bandfish and bonytongues".

How many syllables are in osteoglossidae?

osteoglossidae has 6 syllables: o-ste-o-glos-si-dae. The stress falls on "glos".

What is another word for osteoglossidae?

Close synonyms include family Osteoglossidae. 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 osteoglossidae a common word?

osteoglossidae 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.