leguminosae

Other forms of leguminosae

plural

leguminosaes·

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 leguminosae

What does leguminosae mean?

leguminosae means "a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae".

How many syllables are in leguminosae?

leguminosae has 5 syllables and divides as le-gu-mi-no-sae 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 leguminosae?

Close synonyms include family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family. 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 leguminosae a common word?

leguminosae 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.