paleozoology

Questions about paleozoology

What does paleozoology mean?

paleozoology means "the study of fossil animals".

How many syllables are in paleozoology?

paleozoology has 6 syllables and divides as pa-le-o-zoo-lo-gy 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 paleozoology?

Close synonyms include palaeozoology. 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 paleozoology a common word?

paleozoology 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.