eryngium

1. 1.

   large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution

   Synonymsgenus Eryngium

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofUmbelliferae

Other forms of eryngium

plural

eryngiums·

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 eryngium

What does eryngium mean?

eryngium means "large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution".

How many syllables are in eryngium?

eryngium has 4 syllables: e-ryn-gi-um. The stress falls on "ryn".

What is another word for eryngium?

Close synonyms include genus Eryngium. 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 eryngium a common word?

eryngium 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.