heteroptera

Questions about heteroptera

What does heteroptera mean?

heteroptera means "true bugs".

How many syllables are in heteroptera?

heteroptera has 5 syllables and divides as he-te-rop-te-ra 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 heteroptera?

Close synonyms include suborder Heteroptera. 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 heteroptera a common word?

heteroptera 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.