arabis

Questions about arabis

What does arabis mean?

arabis means "annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress".

How many syllables are in arabis?

arabis has 3 syllables and divides as a-ra-bis 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 arabis?

Close synonyms include genus Arabis. 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 arabis a common word?

arabis 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.