caryophyllaceous

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae

Questions about caryophyllaceous

What does caryophyllaceous mean?

caryophyllaceous means "of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae".

How many syllables are in caryophyllaceous?

caryophyllaceous has 6 syllables and divides as ca-ryo-phyl-la-ce-ous 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.

Is caryophyllaceous a common word?

caryophyllaceous 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.