fabaceae

Other forms of fabaceae

plural

fabaceaes·

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 fabaceae

What does fabaceae mean?

fabaceae means "a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae".

How many syllables are in fabaceae?

fabaceae has 4 syllables: fa-ba-ce-ae. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for fabaceae?

Close synonyms include Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea 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 fabaceae a common word?

fabaceae 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.