porifera

Questions about porifera

What does porifera mean?

porifera means "coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges".

How many syllables are in porifera?

porifera has 4 syllables and divides as po-ri-fe-ra 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 porifera?

Close synonyms include phylum Porifera. 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 porifera a common word?

porifera 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.