cuscuta

1. 1.

   genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder

   Synonymsgenus Cuscuta

   Broaderdicot genus

   Part ofConvolvulaceae

Other forms of cuscuta

plural

cuscutas·

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 cuscuta

What does cuscuta mean?

cuscuta means "genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder".

How many syllables are in cuscuta?

cuscuta has 3 syllables: cu-scu-ta. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cuscuta?

Close synonyms include genus Cuscuta. 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 cuscuta a common word?

cuscuta 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.