polycirrus

Questions about polycirrus

What does polycirrus mean?

polycirrus means "genus of soft-bodied polychete marine worms".

How many syllables are in polycirrus?

polycirrus has 4 syllables and divides as po-ly-cir-rus 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 polycirrus?

Close synonyms include genus Polycirrus. 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 polycirrus a common word?

polycirrus 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.