antheraea

Questions about antheraea

What does antheraea mean?

antheraea means "large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality".

How many syllables are in antheraea?

antheraea has 5 syllables and divides as an-the-ra-e-a 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 antheraea?

Close synonyms include genus Antheraea. 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 antheraea a common word?

antheraea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.