Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sea butterfly

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: sea but-ter-fly
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.

Example Sentences

"Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings."

Inflected Forms

sea butterflies (plural)

Synonyms

pteropod

Questions

What does sea butterfly mean?: Any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.

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