thysanopteron

Questions about thysanopteron

What does thysanopteron mean?

thysanopteron means "an insect of the order Thysanoptera".

How many syllables are in thysanopteron?

thysanopteron has 5 syllables and divides as thy-sa-nop-te-ron 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 thysanopteron?

Close synonyms include thysanopter, thysanopterous insect. 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 thysanopteron a common word?

thysanopteron 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.