odonata

Questions about odonata

What does odonata mean?

odonata means "dragonflies and damselflies".

How many syllables are in odonata?

odonata has 4 syllables and divides as o-do-na-ta 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 odonata?

Close synonyms include order Odonata. 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 odonata a common word?

odonata 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.