uintatherium

Questions about uintatherium

What does uintatherium mean?

uintatherium means "type genus of the Uintatheriidae; extinct large herbivorous ungulates somewhat resembling elephants; from the Eocene in Wyoming".

How many syllables are in uintatherium?

uintatherium has 6 syllables and divides as u-in-ta-the-ri-um 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 uintatherium?

Close synonyms include genus Uintatherium. 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 uintatherium a common word?

uintatherium 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.