coracias garrulus

1. 1.

   common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back

   SynonymsEuropean roller

   Broaderroller

   Part ofCoracias

Questions about coracias garrulus

What does coracias garrulus mean?

coracias garrulus means "common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back".

What is another word for coracias garrulus?

Close synonyms include European roller. 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 coracias garrulus a common word?

coracias garrulus 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.