hypericum

1. 1.

   large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions

   Synonymsgenus Hypericum

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofGuttiferae

Other forms of hypericum

plural

hypericums·

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 hypericum

What does hypericum mean?

hypericum means "large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions".

How many syllables are in hypericum?

hypericum has 4 syllables: hy-pe-ri-cum. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for hypericum?

Close synonyms include genus Hypericum. 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 hypericum a common word?

hypericum 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.