cochlearia

Questions about cochlearia

What does cochlearia mean?

cochlearia means "a genus of the family Cruciferae".

How many syllables are in cochlearia?

cochlearia has 5 syllables and divides as coch-le-a-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 cochlearia?

Close synonyms include genus Cochlearia. 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 cochlearia a common word?

cochlearia 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.