plecopteran

1. 1.

   primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones

   Synonymsstoneflystone fly

   Broaderinsect

   Part ofPlecoptera

Other forms of plecopteran

plural

plecopterans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plecopteran

What does plecopteran mean?

plecopteran means "primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones".

How many syllables are in plecopteran?

plecopteran has 4 syllables: ple-cop-te-ran. The stress falls on "cop".

What is another word for plecopteran?

Close synonyms include stonefly, stone fly. 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 plecopteran a common word?

plecopteran 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.