thryothorus

Questions about thryothorus

What does thryothorus mean?

thryothorus means "Carolina wrens".

How many syllables are in thryothorus?

thryothorus has 3 syllables and divides as thryo-tho-rus 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 thryothorus?

Close synonyms include genus Thryothorus. 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 thryothorus a common word?

thryothorus 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.