falconiformes

Questions about falconiformes

What does falconiformes mean?

falconiformes means "chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures".

How many syllables are in falconiformes?

falconiformes has 4 syllables and divides as fal-coni-for-mes 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 falconiformes?

Close synonyms include order Falconiformes. 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 falconiformes a common word?

falconiformes 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.