spheniscidae

Questions about spheniscidae

What does spheniscidae mean?

spheniscidae means "comprising all existing penguins".

How many syllables are in spheniscidae?

spheniscidae has 4 syllables and divides as sphe-ni-sci-dae 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 spheniscidae?

Close synonyms include family Spheniscidae. 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 spheniscidae a common word?

spheniscidae 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.