camponotus

Questions about camponotus

What does camponotus mean?

camponotus means "carpenter ants".

How many syllables are in camponotus?

camponotus has 4 syllables and divides as cam-po-no-tus 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 camponotus?

Close synonyms include genus Camponotus. 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 camponotus a common word?

camponotus 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.