salvelinus

Questions about salvelinus

What does salvelinus mean?

salvelinus means "brook trout".

How many syllables are in salvelinus?

salvelinus has 4 syllables: sal-ve-li-nus. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for salvelinus?

Close synonyms include genus Salvelinus. 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 salvelinus a common word?

salvelinus 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.