steatornis

Questions about steatornis

What does steatornis mean?

steatornis means "type and sole genus of the family Steatornithidae".

How many syllables are in steatornis?

steatornis has 4 syllables and divides as ste-a-tor-nis 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 steatornis?

Close synonyms include genus Steatornis. 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 steatornis a common word?

steatornis 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.