tachyglossus

Questions about tachyglossus

What does tachyglossus mean?

tachyglossus means "type genus of the family Tachyglossidae".

How many syllables are in tachyglossus?

tachyglossus has 4 syllables and divides as ta-chy-glos-sus 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 tachyglossus?

Close synonyms include genus Tachyglossus. 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 tachyglossus a common word?

tachyglossus 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.