dicentra

Questions about dicentra

What does dicentra mean?

dicentra means "North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers".

How many syllables are in dicentra?

dicentra has 3 syllables and divides as di-cen-tra 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 dicentra?

Close synonyms include genus Dicentra. 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 dicentra a common word?

dicentra 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.