anagyris

1. 1.

   very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods

   Synonymsgenus Anagyris

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Other forms of anagyris

plural

anagyrises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anagyris

What does anagyris mean?

anagyris means "very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods".

How many syllables are in anagyris?

anagyris has 4 syllables: a-na-gy-ris. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anagyris?

Close synonyms include genus Anagyris. 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 anagyris a common word?

anagyris is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.