flickertail

What does flickertail mean?

flickertail means "of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada".

How many syllables are in flickertail?

flickertail has 3 syllables and divides as flic-ker-tail 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 flickertail?

Close synonyms include Richardson ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni. 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 flickertail a common word?

flickertail 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flickertail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.