megachiroptera

Questions about megachiroptera

What does megachiroptera mean?

megachiroptera means "fruit bats".

How many syllables are in megachiroptera?

megachiroptera has 6 syllables and divides as me-ga-chi-rop-te-ra 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 megachiroptera?

Close synonyms include suborder Megachiroptera. 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 megachiroptera a common word?

megachiroptera 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.