nycticorax

Questions about nycticorax

What does nycticorax mean?

nycticorax means "Old World night herons".

How many syllables are in nycticorax?

nycticorax has 4 syllables and divides as nyc-ti-co-rax 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 nycticorax?

Close synonyms include genus Nycticorax. 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 nycticorax a common word?

nycticorax 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.