lepidium

Questions about lepidium

What does lepidium mean?

lepidium means "cosmopolitan genus of annual and biennial and perennial herbs: cress".

How many syllables are in lepidium?

lepidium has 4 syllables and divides as le-pi-di-um 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 lepidium?

Close synonyms include genus Lepidium. 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 lepidium a common word?

lepidium 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.