iridaceous

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae

Questions about iridaceous

What does iridaceous mean?

iridaceous means "of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae".

How many syllables are in iridaceous?

iridaceous has 5 syllables and divides as i-ri-da-ce-ous 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.

Is iridaceous a common word?

iridaceous 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.