sphingidae

Questions about sphingidae

What does sphingidae mean?

sphingidae means "hawkmoths".

How many syllables are in sphingidae?

sphingidae has 3 syllables and divides as sphin-gi-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 sphingidae?

Close synonyms include family Sphingidae. 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 sphingidae a common word?

sphingidae 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.