arabidopsis

Questions about arabidopsis

What does arabidopsis mean?

arabidopsis means "a genus of the mustard family having white or yellow or purplish flowers; closely related to genus Arabis".

How many syllables are in arabidopsis?

arabidopsis has 5 syllables and divides as a-ra-bi-dop-sis 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 arabidopsis?

Close synonyms include genus Arabidopsis. 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 arabidopsis a common word?

arabidopsis 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.