stereospondyli

1. 1.

   formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece

   “most vertebrates are stereospondylous”

   Synonymsorder Stereospondyli

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofLabyrinthodontia

Other forms of stereospondyli

plural

stereospondylis·

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 stereospondyli

What does stereospondyli mean?

stereospondyli means "formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece".

How many syllables are in stereospondyli?

stereospondyli has 6 syllables: ste-re-o-spon-dy-li. The stress falls on "spon".

What is another word for stereospondyli?

Close synonyms include order Stereospondyli. 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 stereospondyli a common word?

stereospondyli 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.