anthurium

Questions about anthurium

What does anthurium mean?

anthurium means "any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers".

How many syllables are in anthurium?

anthurium has 4 syllables: an-thu-ri-um. The stress falls on "thu".

What is another word for anthurium?

Close synonyms include tailflower, tail-flower. 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 anthurium a common word?

anthurium 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.