lycosa

Questions about lycosa

What does lycosa mean?

lycosa means "type genus of the family Lycosidae".

How many syllables are in lycosa?

lycosa has 3 syllables and divides as ly-co-sa 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 lycosa?

Close synonyms include genus Lycosa. 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 lycosa a common word?

lycosa 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.