gymnadenia

Questions about gymnadenia

What does gymnadenia mean?

gymnadenia means "small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia".

How many syllables are in gymnadenia?

gymnadenia has 5 syllables and divides as gym-na-de-ni-a 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 gymnadenia?

Close synonyms include genus Gymnadenia. 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 gymnadenia a common word?

gymnadenia 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.