teleostan

Other forms of teleostan

plural

teleostans·

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 teleostan

What does teleostan mean?

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

How many syllables are in teleostan?

teleostan has 4 syllables: te-le-o-stan. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for teleostan?

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

teleostan 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.