chalcidfly

Other forms of chalcidfly

plural

chalcidflies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chalcidfly

What does chalcidfly mean?

chalcidfly means "any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects".

How many syllables are in chalcidfly?

chalcidfly has 3 syllables: chal-cid-fly. The stress falls on "chal".

What is another word for chalcidfly?

Close synonyms include chalcid fly, chalcid, chalcid wasp. 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 chalcidfly a common word?

chalcidfly 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.