pieridae

Questions about pieridae

What does pieridae mean?

pieridae means "arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies".

How many syllables are in pieridae?

pieridae has 3 syllables and divides as pie-ri-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 pieridae?

Close synonyms include family Pieridae. 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 pieridae a common word?

pieridae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.