brassia

Questions about brassia

What does brassia mean?

brassia means "genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids".

How many syllables are in brassia?

brassia has 3 syllables and divides as bras-si-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 brassia?

Close synonyms include genus Brassia. 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 brassia a common word?

brassia 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.