orthopteron

Other forms of orthopteron

plural

orthoptera

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 orthopteron

What does orthopteron mean?

orthopteron means "any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts".

How many syllables are in orthopteron?

orthopteron has 4 syllables and divides as or-thop-te-ron 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 orthopteron?

Close synonyms include orthopterous insect, orthopteran. 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 orthopteron a common word?

orthopteron 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.