teleost

Other forms of teleost

plural

teleosts·

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 teleost

What does teleost mean?

teleost means "a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei".

How many syllables are in teleost?

teleost has 3 syllables: te-le-ost. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for teleost?

Close synonyms include teleost fish, teleostan. 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 teleost a common word?

teleost 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.