sciarid

Questions about sciarid

What is another word for sciarid?

It depends which sciarid you mean. In the sense “minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings”, the synonyms are fungus gnat, sciara. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sciarid?

WordNet records no antonym for sciarid. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sciarid come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sciarid

• Full entry for sciaridAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sciaridWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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