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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
squillidae is a noun meaning "crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore". It carries one recorded sense.
crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for squillidae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.