heliophila

1. 1.

   any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes

   Broaderflower

   Part ofgenus Heliophila

Other forms of heliophila

plural

heliophilas·

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 heliophila

What does heliophila mean?

heliophila means "any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes".

How many syllables are in heliophila?

heliophila has 5 syllables: he-li-o-phi-la. The stress falls on "o".

Is heliophila a common word?

heliophila 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.