sciaenid

Other forms of sciaenid

plural

sciaenids·

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 sciaenid

What does sciaenid mean?

sciaenid means "widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound".

How many syllables are in sciaenid?

sciaenid has 4 syllables: sci-a-e-nid. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for sciaenid?

Close synonyms include sciaenid fish. 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 sciaenid a common word?

sciaenid 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.