plecopteran

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 and divides as ple-cop-te-ran 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 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.