amaranthus

Questions about amaranthus

What does amaranthus mean?

amaranthus means "large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs".

How many syllables are in amaranthus?

amaranthus has 4 syllables and divides as a-ma-ran-thus 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 amaranthus?

Close synonyms include genus Amaranthus. 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 amaranthus a common word?

amaranthus 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.