vespertilionid

Other forms of vespertilionid

plural

vespertilionids·

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 vespertilionid

What does vespertilionid mean?

vespertilionid means "a variety of carnivorous bat".

How many syllables are in vespertilionid?

vespertilionid has 6 syllables: ve-sper-ti-li-o-nid. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for vespertilionid?

Close synonyms include vespertilian bat. 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 vespertilionid a common word?

vespertilionid 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.