bittacidae

Questions about bittacidae

What does bittacidae mean?

bittacidae means "a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera".

How many syllables are in bittacidae?

bittacidae has 4 syllables and divides as bit-ta-ci-dae 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 bittacidae?

Close synonyms include family Bittacidae. 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 bittacidae a common word?

bittacidae 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.