dracunculus

Other forms of dracunculus

plural

dracunculuses·

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 dracunculus

What does dracunculus mean?

dracunculus means "tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dracunculus?

dracunculus has 4 syllables: dra-cun-cu-lus. The stress falls on "cun".

What is another word for dracunculus?

Close synonyms include genus Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus. 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 dracunculus a common word?

dracunculus 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.