gymnadenia

1. 1.

   small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia

   Synonymsgenus Gymnadenia

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofOrchidaceae

Other forms of gymnadenia

plural

gymnadenias·

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 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: gym-na-de-ni-a. The stress falls on "de".

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.