hippoboscidae

Questions about hippoboscidae

What does hippoboscidae mean?

hippoboscidae means "winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies".

How many syllables are in hippoboscidae?

hippoboscidae has 5 syllables and divides as hip-po-bo-sci-dae 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 hippoboscidae?

Close synonyms include family Hippoboscidae. 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 hippoboscidae a common word?

hippoboscidae 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.