kentan

1. 1.

   east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals

   Synonymstiger lilydevil lilyLilium lancifolium

   Broaderlily

Other forms of kentan

plural

kentans·

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 kentan

What does kentan mean?

kentan means "east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals".

How many syllables are in kentan?

kentan has 2 syllables: ken-tan. The stress falls on "ken".

What is another word for kentan?

Close synonyms include tiger lily, devil lily, Lilium lancifolium. 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 kentan a common word?

kentan 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.