seismosaur

Questions about seismosaur

What does seismosaur mean?

seismosaur means "huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America".

How many syllables are in seismosaur?

seismosaur has 3 syllables and divides as sei-smo-saur 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 seismosaur?

Close synonyms include ground-shaker. 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 seismosaur a common word?

seismosaur 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.