stromateid

Other forms of stromateid

plural

stromateids·

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 stromateid

What does stromateid mean?

stromateid means "small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines".

How many syllables are in stromateid?

stromateid has 3 syllables and divides as stro-ma-teid 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 stromateid?

Close synonyms include butterfish, stromateid fish. 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 stromateid a common word?

stromateid 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.