hemipteron

Other forms of hemipteron

plural

hemipterons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemipteron

What does hemipteron mean?

hemipteron means "insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis".

How many syllables are in hemipteron?

hemipteron has 4 syllables and divides as he-mip-te-ron 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 hemipteron?

Close synonyms include hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran. 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 hemipteron a common word?

hemipteron 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.