lipfern

Other forms of lipfern

plural

lipferns·

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 lipfern

What does lipfern mean?

lipfern means "any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions".

How many syllables are in lipfern?

lipfern has 2 syllables: lip-fern. The stress falls on "lip".

What is another word for lipfern?

Close synonyms include lip fern. 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 lipfern a common word?

lipfern 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.