guttiferae

1. 1.

   widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber

   Synonymsfamily GuttiferaeClusiaceaefamily ClusiaceaeSt John's wort family

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofParietales

Other forms of guttiferae

plural

guttiferaes·

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 guttiferae

What does guttiferae mean?

guttiferae means "widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber".

How many syllables are in guttiferae?

guttiferae has 4 syllables: gut-ti-fe-rae. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for guttiferae?

Close synonyms include family Guttiferae, Clusiaceae, family Clusiaceae, St John's wort 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 guttiferae a common word?

guttiferae 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.