salientian

1. 1.

   relating to frogs and toads

   Synonymsanuranbatrachian

   zoology

Other forms of salientian

plural

salientians·

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 salientian

What does salientian mean?

salientian means "any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salientian?

salientian has 4 syllables and divides as sa-li-en-tian 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 salientian?

Close synonyms include frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian. 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 salientian a common word?

salientian is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.