hemerobiid

Questions about hemerobiid

What does hemerobiid mean?

hemerobiid means "small dark-colored lacewing fly".

How many syllables are in hemerobiid?

hemerobiid has 5 syllables and divides as he-me-ro-bi-id 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 hemerobiid?

Close synonyms include brown lacewing, hemerobiid fly. 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 hemerobiid a common word?

hemerobiid 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.