scombridae

Questions about scombridae

What does scombridae mean?

scombridae means "marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna".

How many syllables are in scombridae?

scombridae has 3 syllables and divides as scom-bri-dae 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 scombridae?

Close synonyms include family Scombridae. 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 scombridae a common word?

scombridae 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.