parazoan

1. 1.

   primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

   Synonymsspongeporiferan

   Broaderinvertebrate

   Narrowerglass sponge

   Part ofPorifera

Other forms of parazoan

plural

parazoa

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 parazoan

What does parazoan mean?

parazoan means "primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies".

How many syllables are in parazoan?

parazoan has 4 syllables: pa-ra-zo-an. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for parazoan?

Close synonyms include sponge, poriferan. 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 parazoan a common word?

parazoan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.