ciconia

Questions about ciconia

What does ciconia mean?

ciconia means "type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks".

How many syllables are in ciconia?

ciconia has 4 syllables and divides as ci-co-ni-a 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 ciconia?

Close synonyms include genus Ciconia. 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 ciconia a common word?

ciconia 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.