corydalis

1. 1.

   a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers

   Broaderflower
2. 2.

   annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa

   Synonymsgenus Corydalis

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   NarrowerRoman wormwoodfumewort

   Part ofPapaveraceae
3. 3.

   type genus of the Corydalidae

   SynonymsCorydalusgenus Corydalusgenus Corydalis

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofCorydalidae

Other forms of corydalis

plural

corydalises·

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 corydalis

What does corydalis mean?

corydalis means "a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corydalis?

corydalis has 4 syllables: co-ry-da-lis. The stress falls on "ry".

What is another word for corydalis?

Close synonyms include genus Corydalis, Corydalus, genus Corydalus, genus Corydalis. 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 corydalis a common word?

corydalis is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.