sirenian

Other forms of sirenian

plural

sirenians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sirenian

What does sirenian mean?

sirenian means "any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs".

How many syllables are in sirenian?

sirenian has 4 syllables: si-re-ni-an. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for sirenian?

Close synonyms include sea cow, sirenian mammal. 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 sirenian a common word?

sirenian 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.