nymphalid

Other forms of nymphalid

plural

nymphalids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nymphalid

What does nymphalid mean?

nymphalid means "medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast".

How many syllables are in nymphalid?

nymphalid has 3 syllables and divides as nym-pha-lid 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 nymphalid?

Close synonyms include nymphalid butterfly, brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly. 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 nymphalid a common word?

nymphalid 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.