filicales

Questions about filicales

What does filicales mean?

filicales means "true (leptosporangiate) ferns".

How many syllables are in filicales?

filicales has 3 syllables: fili-ca-les. The stress falls on "fili".

What is another word for filicales?

Close synonyms include order Filicales, Polypodiales, order Polypodiales. 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 filicales a common word?

filicales is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.