ardeidae

1. 1.

   herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns

   Synonymsfamily Ardeidae

   Broaderbird family

   Part ofCiconiiformes

Other forms of ardeidae

plural

ardeidaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ardeidae

What does ardeidae mean?

ardeidae means "herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns".

How many syllables are in ardeidae?

ardeidae has 3 syllables: ar-dei-dae. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for ardeidae?

Close synonyms include family Ardeidae. 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 ardeidae a common word?

ardeidae 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.