dermatobia

Questions about dermatobia

What does dermatobia mean?

dermatobia means "larvae live under the skin of domestic mammals and humans".

How many syllables are in dermatobia?

dermatobia has 5 syllables and divides as der-ma-to-bi-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 dermatobia?

Close synonyms include genus Dermatobia. 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 dermatobia a common word?

dermatobia 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.