strawworm

Other forms of strawworm

plural

strawworms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about strawworm

What does strawworm mean?

strawworm means "larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in strawworm?

strawworm has 2 syllables: straw-worm. The stress falls on "straw".

What is another word for strawworm?

Close synonyms include caddisworm, jointworm. 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 strawworm a common word?

strawworm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.