echinocactus

Questions about echinocactus

What does echinocactus mean?

echinocactus means "any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil".

How many syllables are in echinocactus?

echinocactus has 5 syllables and divides as e-chi-no-cac-tus 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 echinocactus?

Close synonyms include barrel cactus. 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 echinocactus a common word?

echinocactus 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.