scyphozoa

Questions about scyphozoa

What does scyphozoa mean?

scyphozoa means "coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes".

How many syllables are in scyphozoa?

scyphozoa has 4 syllables and divides as scy-pho-zo-a 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 scyphozoa?

Close synonyms include class Scyphozoa. 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 scyphozoa a common word?

scyphozoa 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.