dermestidae

Questions about dermestidae

What does dermestidae mean?

dermestidae means "carpet beetles".

How many syllables are in dermestidae?

dermestidae has 4 syllables and divides as der-me-sti-dae 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 dermestidae?

Close synonyms include family Dermestidae. 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 dermestidae a common word?

dermestidae 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.