apocynaceae

1. 1.

   chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs

   Synonymsfamily Apocynaceaedogbane family

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofGentianales

Other forms of apocynaceae

plural

apocynaceaes·

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 apocynaceae

What does apocynaceae mean?

apocynaceae means "chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs".

How many syllables are in apocynaceae?

apocynaceae has 6 syllables: a-po-cy-na-ce-ae. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for apocynaceae?

Close synonyms include family Apocynaceae, dogbane 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 apocynaceae a common word?

apocynaceae 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.