drosophilidae

Questions about drosophilidae

What does drosophilidae mean?

drosophilidae means "fruit flies".

How many syllables are in drosophilidae?

drosophilidae has 5 syllables and divides as dro-so-phi-li-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 drosophilidae?

Close synonyms include family Drosophilidae. 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 drosophilidae a common word?

drosophilidae 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.