phalaenoptilus nuttallii

1. 1.

   goatsucker of western North America

   Synonymspoorwill

   Broadergoatsucker

   Part ofPhalaenoptilus

Questions about phalaenoptilus nuttallii

What does phalaenoptilus nuttallii mean?

phalaenoptilus nuttallii means "goatsucker of western North America".

What is another word for phalaenoptilus nuttallii?

Close synonyms include poorwill. 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 phalaenoptilus nuttallii a common word?

phalaenoptilus nuttallii 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.