cineraria

Questions about cineraria

What does cineraria mean?

cineraria means "herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers".

How many syllables are in cineraria?

cineraria has 5 syllables and divides as ci-ne-ra-ri-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 cineraria?

Close synonyms include Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus. 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 cineraria a common word?

cineraria 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.