xenorhyncus

Questions about xenorhyncus

What does xenorhyncus mean?

xenorhyncus means "East Indian and Australian storks".

How many syllables are in xenorhyncus?

xenorhyncus has 4 syllables and divides as xe-nor-hyn-cus 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 xenorhyncus?

Close synonyms include genus Xenorhyncus. 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 xenorhyncus a common word?

xenorhyncus 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.