phoronidea

Questions about phoronidea

What does phoronidea mean?

phoronidea means "small phylum of wormlike marine animals".

How many syllables are in phoronidea?

phoronidea has 5 syllables and divides as pho-ro-ni-de-a 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 phoronidea?

Close synonyms include Phoronida, phylum Phoronida. 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 phoronidea a common word?

phoronidea 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.