haemanthus

Questions about haemanthus

What does haemanthus mean?

haemanthus means "genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies".

How many syllables are in haemanthus?

haemanthus has 4 syllables and divides as ha-e-man-thus 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 haemanthus?

Close synonyms include genus Haemanthus. 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 haemanthus a common word?

haemanthus 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.