pleurobrachia

Questions about pleurobrachia

What does pleurobrachia mean?

pleurobrachia means "sea gooseberries".

How many syllables are in pleurobrachia?

pleurobrachia has 6 syllables and divides as ple-u-ro-bra-chi-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 pleurobrachia?

Close synonyms include genus Pleurobrachia. 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 pleurobrachia a common word?

pleurobrachia 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.