thalarctos

Questions about thalarctos

What does thalarctos mean?

thalarctos means "polar bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus".

How many syllables are in thalarctos?

thalarctos has 3 syllables and divides as tha-larc-tos 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 thalarctos?

Close synonyms include genus Thalarctos. 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 thalarctos a common word?

thalarctos 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.