Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

signiphorid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sig-niphorid
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the Signiphoridae of parasitic wasps.

Example Sentences

"In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids)."

Inflected Forms

signiphorids (plural)

Questions

What does signiphorid mean?: Any member of the Signiphoridae of parasitic wasps.

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