polioptila

Questions about polioptila

What does polioptila mean?

polioptila means "New World gnatcatchers".

How many syllables are in polioptila?

polioptila has 5 syllables and divides as po-li-op-ti-la 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 polioptila?

Close synonyms include genus Polioptila. 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 polioptila a common word?

polioptila 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.