burhinidae

Questions about burhinidae

What does burhinidae mean?

burhinidae means "large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews".

How many syllables are in burhinidae?

burhinidae has 4 syllables and divides as bur-hi-ni-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 burhinidae?

Close synonyms include family Burhinidae. 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 burhinidae a common word?

burhinidae 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.