carpocapsa

Questions about carpocapsa

What does carpocapsa mean?

carpocapsa means "codling moths".

How many syllables are in carpocapsa?

carpocapsa has 4 syllables and divides as car-po-cap-sa 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 carpocapsa?

Close synonyms include genus Carpocapsa. 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 carpocapsa a common word?

carpocapsa 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.