asclepiadaceous

1. 1.

   of or relating to plants of the milkweed family

   botany

Questions about asclepiadaceous

What does asclepiadaceous mean?

asclepiadaceous means "of or relating to plants of the milkweed family".

How many syllables are in asclepiadaceous?

asclepiadaceous has 7 syllables: as-cle-pi-a-da-ce-ous. The stress falls on "ce".

Is asclepiadaceous a common word?

asclepiadaceous 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.