filicinae

Questions about filicinae

What does filicinae mean?

filicinae means "ferns".

How many syllables are in filicinae?

filicinae has 4 syllables and divides as fi-li-ci-nae 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 filicinae?

Close synonyms include Filicopsida, class Filicopsida, class Filicinae. 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 filicinae a common word?

filicinae 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.