amaranthaceae

Questions about amaranthaceae

What does amaranthaceae mean?

amaranthaceae means "cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs".

How many syllables are in amaranthaceae?

amaranthaceae has 6 syllables and divides as a-ma-ran-tha-ce-ae under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for amaranthaceae?

Close synonyms include family Amaranthaceae, amaranth family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amaranthaceae a common word?

amaranthaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.