hippoboscid

Questions about hippoboscid

What does hippoboscid mean?

hippoboscid means "bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals".

How many syllables are in hippoboscid?

hippoboscid has 4 syllables and divides as hip-po-bo-scid 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 hippoboscid?

Close synonyms include louse 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 hippoboscid a common word?

hippoboscid 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.