polyplacophore

1. 1.

   primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates

   Synonymschitoncoat-of-mail shellsea cradle

   Broadermollusk

   Part ofgenus Chiton

Other forms of polyplacophore

plural

polyplacophores·

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 polyplacophore

What does polyplacophore mean?

polyplacophore means "primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates".

How many syllables are in polyplacophore?

polyplacophore has 5 syllables: po-ly-pla-co-phore. The stress falls on "pla".

What is another word for polyplacophore?

Close synonyms include chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle. 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 polyplacophore a common word?

polyplacophore 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.