megachilidae

Questions about megachilidae

What does megachilidae mean?

megachilidae means "leaf-cutting and mason bees".

How many syllables are in megachilidae?

megachilidae has 5 syllables and divides as me-ga-chi-li-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 megachilidae?

Close synonyms include family Megachilidae. 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 megachilidae a common word?

megachilidae 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.