pediculidae

Questions about pediculidae

What does pediculidae mean?

pediculidae means "true lice: human lice and related forms".

How many syllables are in pediculidae?

pediculidae has 5 syllables and divides as pe-di-cu-li-dae 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 pediculidae?

Close synonyms include family Pediculidae. 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 pediculidae a common word?

pediculidae 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.