blephilia

Questions about blephilia

What does blephilia mean?

blephilia means "small genus of North American herbs: wood mints".

How many syllables are in blephilia?

blephilia has 4 syllables and divides as ble-phi-li-a 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 blephilia?

Close synonyms include genus Blephilia. 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 blephilia a common word?

blephilia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.