eichhornia

1. 1.

   water hyacinth; water orchid

   Synonymsgenus Eichhornia

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofPontederiaceae

Other forms of eichhornia

plural

eichhornias·

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 eichhornia

What does eichhornia mean?

eichhornia means "water hyacinth; water orchid".

How many syllables are in eichhornia?

eichhornia has 4 syllables: e-ich-hor-nia. The stress falls on "ich".

What is another word for eichhornia?

Close synonyms include genus Eichhornia. 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 eichhornia a common word?

eichhornia 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.