placodermi

Questions about placodermi

What does placodermi mean?

placodermi means "extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws".

How many syllables are in placodermi?

placodermi has 4 syllables and divides as pla-co-der-mi 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 placodermi?

Close synonyms include class Placodermi. 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 placodermi a common word?

placodermi 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.