osteoglossidae

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 and divides as o-ste-o-glos-si-dae 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 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.