microhylidae

Questions about microhylidae

What does microhylidae mean?

microhylidae means "narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide".

How many syllables are in microhylidae?

microhylidae has 5 syllables and divides as mi-cro-hy-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 microhylidae?

Close synonyms include family Microhylidae, Brevicipitidae, family Brevicipitidae. 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 microhylidae a common word?

microhylidae 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.