piscivorous

1. 1.

   feeding on fishes

   Similarcarnivorous

Questions about piscivorous

What does piscivorous mean?

piscivorous means "feeding on fishes".

How many syllables are in piscivorous?

piscivorous has 4 syllables and divides as pi-sci-vo-rous 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.

Is piscivorous a common word?

piscivorous 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.