grammatophyllum

1. 1.

   small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long

   Synonymsgenus Grammatophyllum

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofOrchidaceae

Other forms of grammatophyllum

plural

grammatophyllums·

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 grammatophyllum

What does grammatophyllum mean?

grammatophyllum means "small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long".

How many syllables are in grammatophyllum?

grammatophyllum has 5 syllables: gram-ma-to-phyl-lum. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for grammatophyllum?

Close synonyms include genus Grammatophyllum. 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 grammatophyllum a common word?

grammatophyllum 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.