scophthalmus

Questions about scophthalmus

What does scophthalmus mean?

scophthalmus means "a genus of Bothidae".

How many syllables are in scophthalmus?

scophthalmus has 3 syllables and divides as scoph-thal-mus 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 scophthalmus?

Close synonyms include genus Scophthalmus. 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 scophthalmus a common word?

scophthalmus 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.