swimmeret

Questions about swimmeret

What does swimmeret mean?

swimmeret means "one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming".

How many syllables are in swimmeret?

swimmeret has 3 syllables and divides as swim-me-ret 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 swimmeret?

Close synonyms include pleopod. 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 swimmeret a common word?

swimmeret is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.