canavalia

Questions about canavalia

What does canavalia mean?

canavalia means "herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics".

How many syllables are in canavalia?

canavalia has 5 syllables and divides as ca-na-va-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 canavalia?

Close synonyms include genus Canavalia. 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 canavalia a common word?

canavalia 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.