myrmecophagous

1. 1.

   feeding on ants

   “myrmecophagous squirrel”

   Similarinsectivorous

Questions about myrmecophagous

What does myrmecophagous mean?

myrmecophagous means "feeding on ants".

How many syllables are in myrmecophagous?

myrmecophagous has 5 syllables and divides as myr-me-co-pha-gous 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.

Is myrmecophagous a common word?

myrmecophagous 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.