fumariaceae

Questions about fumariaceae

What does fumariaceae mean?

fumariaceae means "erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn".

How many syllables are in fumariaceae?

fumariaceae has 6 syllables and divides as fu-ma-ri-a-ce-ae 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 fumariaceae?

Close synonyms include family Fumariaceae, fumitory 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 fumariaceae a common word?

fumariaceae 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.