schistosoma

Questions about schistosoma

What does schistosoma mean?

schistosoma means "type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes".

How many syllables are in schistosoma?

schistosoma has 4 syllables and divides as schi-sto-so-ma 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 schistosoma?

Close synonyms include genus Schistosoma. 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 schistosoma a common word?

schistosoma 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.