gnaphalium

Questions about gnaphalium

What does gnaphalium mean?

gnaphalium means "large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres".

How many syllables are in gnaphalium?

gnaphalium has 4 syllables and divides as gna-pha-li-um 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 gnaphalium?

Close synonyms include genus Gnaphalium. 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 gnaphalium a common word?

gnaphalium 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.