sarcocystis

Questions about sarcocystis

What does sarcocystis mean?

sarcocystis means "chief genus of the order Sarcosporidia".

How many syllables are in sarcocystis?

sarcocystis has 4 syllables and divides as sar-co-cy-stis 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 sarcocystis?

Close synonyms include genus Sarcocystis. 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 sarcocystis a common word?

sarcocystis 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.