petaurista

Questions about petaurista

What does petaurista mean?

petaurista means "very large Asiatic flying squirrels".

How many syllables are in petaurista?

petaurista has 4 syllables and divides as pe-tau-ri-sta 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 petaurista?

Close synonyms include genus Petaurista. 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 petaurista a common word?

petaurista 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.