pinniped

Other forms of pinniped

plural

pinnipeds·

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 pinniped

What does pinniped mean?

pinniped means "aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers".

How many syllables are in pinniped?

pinniped has 2 syllables: pin-niped. The stress falls on "pin".

What is another word for pinniped?

Close synonyms include pinniped mammal, pinnatiped. 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 pinniped a common word?

pinniped 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.