therapsid

Other forms of therapsid

plural

therapsids·

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 therapsid

What does therapsid mean?

therapsid means "probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals".

How many syllables are in therapsid?

therapsid has 3 syllables: the-rap-sid. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for therapsid?

Close synonyms include protomammal. 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 therapsid a common word?

therapsid 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.