bombycillidae

Questions about bombycillidae

What does bombycillidae mean?

bombycillidae means "a family of birds of the suborder Oscines".

How many syllables are in bombycillidae?

bombycillidae has 5 syllables and divides as bom-by-cil-li-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 bombycillidae?

Close synonyms include family Bombycillidae. 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 bombycillidae a common word?

bombycillidae 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.