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Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: denart on September 16, 2006, 11:17:46 AM
I have only read the word varroa, and as I read it I say  "va - roar - ah" Silly question but it is bugging me. I may need to say it to someone, and would like to pronounce it correctly.
Dennis
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: Jerrymac on September 16, 2006, 11:35:35 AM
I pronounce it with my mouth :lol:  :lol:

Seriously I think it is va - row - ah
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Post by: Myron Rotruck on September 16, 2006, 11:37:01 AM
Most of the time I say it wrong to. but the name don't bother me that much. It's them little critters that I hate. And I've got some now that I'am trying to get to understand that they are NOT welcome here.  :x
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: Brian D. Bray on September 17, 2006, 01:25:55 AM
Just say Destructor.
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: Michael Bush on September 17, 2006, 11:29:56 AM
I can't say it's right, but it's what I've heard most peoepl say.  vuh ROW uh.

While were're at it, how do you pronounce propolis?  
PROP oh lus or proe Pah lus ?
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: latebee on September 17, 2006, 01:42:37 PM
I guess I have heard it both ways. The way I pronounce propolis, rhymes with metropolis.
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: mark on September 17, 2006, 04:04:48 PM
doesn't anyone have a dictionary? :)
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: Michael Bush on September 17, 2006, 05:52:30 PM
Are Varroa or Propolis in your dictionary?  They weren't in the ones I tried.
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: mark on September 18, 2006, 09:51:14 PM
actually .....  yes
 prop-o-lis  n,  a resinous substance collected from various plants by honeybees and used together with wax in the construction of  their hives.
     
  var-ro-a  n,  a reddish-brown oval mite(varroa jacobsoni) that is a parasite of honeybees.  new latin varroa, genus name,after Varro, Marcus Terentius.

     also ,  they will be found at dictionary.com
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: denart on September 19, 2006, 04:59:27 AM
L  I  B   HOW BOUT TAT
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: Michael Bush on September 19, 2006, 08:04:57 AM
But how do you pronounce them?
Title: How do you pronounce Varroa ??
Post by: empilolo on September 19, 2006, 09:03:35 AM
I would recommend

//www.dictionary.com

which uses more than one dictionary, actually. But to save you the trouble

var·ro·a

prop·o·lis

and some information on varroa at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
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