autogyros
Meaning of autogyros
plural noun
a form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal blades and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the blades are not powered but rotate in the slipstream, propulsion being by a conventional mounted engine.
1920s: from Spanish, from auto- ‘self’ + giro ‘gyration’.
Information about autogyros
- It is a name.
- The singular form of autogyros is: autogyro.
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Hyphenation of autogyros
au-t-o-gy-ros
- It consists of 5 syllables and 9 chars.
- autogyros is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with autogyros
buckayros, Scyros, Gyros, anargyros, gyros, Skyros, Diospyros, diospyros, pyros, tyros
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