catasetum

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   genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences

   Synonymsgenus Catasetum

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofOrchidaceae

Other forms of catasetum

plural

catasetums·

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 catasetum

What does catasetum mean?

catasetum means "genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences".

How many syllables are in catasetum?

catasetum has 4 syllables: ca-ta-se-tum. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for catasetum?

Close synonyms include genus Catasetum. 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 catasetum a common word?

catasetum 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.