Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purple hairstreak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English

Syllables: pur-ple hairstreak
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small, brown (female) or purple (male) butterfly, of species Quercusia quercus (syn. Neozephyrus quercus), of the family Lycaenidae

Inflected Forms

purple hairstreaks (plural)

Questions

What does purple hairstreak mean?: A small, brown (female) or purple (male) butterfly, of species Quercusia quercus (syn. Neozephyrus quercus), of the family Lycaenidae

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