desmanthus

1. 1.

   genus of American herbs or shrubs with sensitive pinnate leaves and small whitish flowers

   Synonymsgenus Desmanthus

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Other forms of desmanthus

plural

desmanthuses·

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 desmanthus

What does desmanthus mean?

desmanthus means "genus of American herbs or shrubs with sensitive pinnate leaves and small whitish flowers".

How many syllables are in desmanthus?

desmanthus has 3 syllables: de-sman-thus. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for desmanthus?

Close synonyms include genus Desmanthus. 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 desmanthus a common word?

desmanthus 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.