oecanthus

Questions about oecanthus

What does oecanthus mean?

oecanthus means "tree crickets".

How many syllables are in oecanthus?

oecanthus has 4 syllables and divides as o-e-can-thus 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 oecanthus?

Close synonyms include genus Oecanthus. 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 oecanthus a common word?

oecanthus 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.