Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

irrawaddy dolphin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English

Syllables: ir-rawad-dy -dol-phin
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Orcaella brevirostris, a euryhaline oceanic dolphin found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.

Inflected Forms

Irrawaddy dolphins (plural)

Questions

What does irrawaddy dolphin mean?: Orcaella brevirostris, a euryhaline oceanic dolphin found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.

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