bombycidae

Questions about bombycidae

What does bombycidae mean?

bombycidae means "Chinese silkworm moth".

How many syllables are in bombycidae?

bombycidae has 4 syllables and divides as bom-by-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 bombycidae?

Close synonyms include family Bombycidae. 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 bombycidae a common word?

bombycidae 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.