tettigoniid

Questions about tettigoniid

What does tettigoniid mean?

tettigoniid means "grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male".

How many syllables are in tettigoniid?

tettigoniid has 5 syllables and divides as tet-ti-go-ni-id 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 tettigoniid?

Close synonyms include long-horned grasshopper. 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 tettigoniid a common word?

tettigoniid 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.