nycticebus

Questions about nycticebus

What does nycticebus mean?

nycticebus means "a genus of Lorisidae".

How many syllables are in nycticebus?

nycticebus has 4 syllables and divides as nyc-ti-ce-bus 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 nycticebus?

Close synonyms include genus Nycticebus. 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 nycticebus a common word?

nycticebus 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.