balsaminaceae

Questions about balsaminaceae

What does balsaminaceae mean?

balsaminaceae means "distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers".

How many syllables are in balsaminaceae?

balsaminaceae has 6 syllables and divides as bal-sa-mi-na-ce-ae 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 balsaminaceae?

Close synonyms include family Balsaminaceae, balsam 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 balsaminaceae a common word?

balsaminaceae 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.