dayflower

Questions about dayflower

What does dayflower mean?

dayflower means "any plant of the family Commelinaceae".

How many syllables are in dayflower?

dayflower has 3 syllables and divides as day-flo-wer 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 dayflower?

Close synonyms include spiderwort. 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 dayflower a common word?

dayflower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.