drosera

Questions about drosera

What does drosera mean?

drosera means "the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants".

How many syllables are in drosera?

drosera has 3 syllables and divides as dro-se-ra 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 drosera?

Close synonyms include genus Drosera. 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 drosera a common word?

drosera 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.