Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chironomid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables: chi-rono-mid
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.

Example Sentences

"Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change."
"Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota."

Etymology

Borrowed from Translingual Chironomidae.

Inflected Forms

chironomids (plural)

Synonyms

non-biting midge

Questions

What does chironomid mean?: Any of the non-biting midges or Chironomidae, a family of true flies within the order Diptera.
Where does chironomid come from?: Borrowed from Translingual Chironomidae.

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