scarabaean

Other forms of scarabaean

plural

scarabaeans·

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 scarabaean

What does scarabaean mean?

scarabaean means "any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes".

How many syllables are in scarabaean?

scarabaean has 5 syllables: sca-ra-ba-e-an. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for scarabaean?

Close synonyms include scarabaeid beetle, scarabaeid. 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 scarabaean a common word?

scarabaean 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.