caryophyllaceae

1. 1.

   large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

   Synonymsfamily Caryophyllaceaecarnation familypink family

   Broadercaryophylloid dicot family

   Part ofCaryophyllales

Other forms of caryophyllaceae

plural

caryophyllaceaes·

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 caryophyllaceae

What does caryophyllaceae mean?

caryophyllaceae means "large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)".

How many syllables are in caryophyllaceae?

caryophyllaceae has 6 syllables: ca-ryo-phyl-la-ce-ae. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for caryophyllaceae?

Close synonyms include family Caryophyllaceae, carnation family, pink family. 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 caryophyllaceae a common word?

caryophyllaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.