laportea

Questions about laportea

What does laportea mean?

laportea means "mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle".

How many syllables are in laportea?

laportea has 4 syllables and divides as la-por-te-a 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.

What is another word for laportea?

Close synonyms include genus Laportea. 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 laportea a common word?

laportea 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.