dactylorhiza

1. 1.

   genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa

   Synonymsgenus Dactylorhiza

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofOrchidaceae

Other forms of dactylorhiza

plural

dactylorhizas·

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 dactylorhiza

What does dactylorhiza mean?

dactylorhiza means "genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa".

How many syllables are in dactylorhiza?

dactylorhiza has 5 syllables: dac-ty-lor-hi-za. The stress falls on "lor".

What is another word for dactylorhiza?

Close synonyms include genus Dactylorhiza. 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 dactylorhiza a common word?

dactylorhiza 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.