sphenopsida

Questions about sphenopsida

What does sphenopsida mean?

sphenopsida means "horsetails and related forms".

How many syllables are in sphenopsida?

sphenopsida has 4 syllables and divides as sphe-nop-si-da 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 sphenopsida?

Close synonyms include class Sphenopsida, Equisetatae, class Equisetatae. 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 sphenopsida a common word?

sphenopsida 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.