genlisea

1. 1.

   rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs

   Broadercarnivorous plant

   Part ofgenus Genlisea

Other forms of genlisea

plural

genliseas·

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 genlisea

What does genlisea mean?

genlisea means "rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs".

How many syllables are in genlisea?

genlisea has 4 syllables: gen-li-se-a. The stress falls on "li".

Is genlisea a common word?

genlisea 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.