hieracium

1. 1.

   large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America; few are ornamental; often considered congeneric with Pilosella

   Synonymsgenus Hieracium

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofCompositae

Other forms of hieracium

plural

hieraciums·

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 hieracium

What does hieracium mean?

hieracium means "large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America; few are ornamental; often considered congeneric with Pilosella".

How many syllables are in hieracium?

hieracium has 4 syllables: hi-e-ra-cium. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for hieracium?

Close synonyms include genus Hieracium. 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 hieracium a common word?

hieracium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.