kalotermes

Questions about kalotermes

What does kalotermes mean?

kalotermes means "type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees".

How many syllables are in kalotermes?

kalotermes has 3 syllables and divides as kalo-ter-mes 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 kalotermes?

Close synonyms include genus Kalotermes. 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 kalotermes a common word?

kalotermes 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.