tribolium

Questions about tribolium

What does tribolium mean?

tribolium means "flour beetles".

How many syllables are in tribolium?

tribolium has 4 syllables and divides as tri-bo-li-um 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 tribolium?

Close synonyms include genus Tribolium. 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 tribolium a common word?

tribolium 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.