scolopacidae

Questions about scolopacidae

What does scolopacidae mean?

scolopacidae means "sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers".

How many syllables are in scolopacidae?

scolopacidae has 5 syllables and divides as sco-lo-pa-ci-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 scolopacidae?

Close synonyms include family Scolopacidae. 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 scolopacidae a common word?

scolopacidae 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.