boltonia

Questions about boltonia

What does boltonia mean?

boltonia means "genus of tall leafy perennial herbs of eastern America and eastern Asia having flowers that resemble asters".

How many syllables are in boltonia?

boltonia has 4 syllables and divides as bol-to-ni-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 boltonia?

Close synonyms include genus Boltonia. 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 boltonia a common word?

boltonia 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.