equisetaceae

Questions about equisetaceae

What does equisetaceae mean?

equisetaceae means "sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies".

How many syllables are in equisetaceae?

equisetaceae has 7 syllables and divides as eq-ui-se-ta-ce-a-e 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 equisetaceae?

Close synonyms include family Equisetaceae, horsetail family. 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 equisetaceae a common word?

equisetaceae 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.