liliaceous

1. 1.

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

Questions about liliaceous

What does liliaceous mean?

liliaceous means "of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae".

How many syllables are in liliaceous?

liliaceous has 5 syllables and divides as li-li-a-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 liliaceous a common word?

liliaceous 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.