Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gerrid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ger-rid
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.

Example Sentences

"However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host."

Inflected Forms

gerrids (plural)

Questions

What does gerrid mean?: Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.

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