bocconia

Other forms of bocconia

plural

bocconias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bocconia

What does bocconia mean?

bocconia means "herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bocconia?

bocconia has 4 syllables: boc-co-ni-a. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for bocconia?

Close synonyms include plume poppy, Macleaya cordata, tree celandine, Bocconia frutescens. 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 bocconia a common word?

bocconia 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.