dicentra

1. 1.

   North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers

   Synonymsgenus Dicentra

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofFumariaceae

Other forms of dicentra

plural

dicentras·

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 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: di-cen-tra. The stress falls on "di".

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.