nematocera

Questions about nematocera

What does nematocera mean?

nematocera means "mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies".

How many syllables are in nematocera?

nematocera has 5 syllables and divides as ne-ma-to-ce-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 nematocera?

Close synonyms include suborder Nematocera. 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 nematocera a common word?

nematocera 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.