psittacus

Questions about psittacus

What does psittacus mean?

psittacus means "type genus of the Psittacidae: usually restricted to the African grey".

How many syllables are in psittacus?

psittacus has 3 syllables and divides as psit-ta-cus 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 psittacus?

Close synonyms include genus Psittacus. 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 psittacus a common word?

psittacus 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.