pachycephala

Questions about pachycephala

What does pachycephala mean?

pachycephala means "arboreal insectivorous birds".

How many syllables are in pachycephala?

pachycephala has 5 syllables and divides as pa-chy-ce-pha-la 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 pachycephala?

Close synonyms include genus Pachycephala. 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 pachycephala a common word?

pachycephala 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.