ardea

Questions about ardea

What does ardea mean?

ardea means "type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons".

How many syllables are in ardea?

ardea has 3 syllables and divides as ar-de-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 ardea?

Close synonyms include genus Ardea. 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 ardea a common word?

ardea 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.