colocasia

Questions about colocasia

What does colocasia mean?

colocasia means "small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of tropical Asia: taro".

How many syllables are in colocasia?

colocasia has 5 syllables and divides as co-lo-ca-si-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 colocasia?

Close synonyms include genus Colocasia. 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 colocasia a common word?

colocasia 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.