silurid

Questions about silurid

What does silurid mean?

silurid means "Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin".

How many syllables are in silurid?

silurid has 3 syllables and divides as si-lu-rid 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 silurid?

Close synonyms include silurid 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 silurid a common word?

silurid 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.