lithops

Other forms of lithops

plural

lithopses·

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 lithops

What does lithops mean?

lithops means "any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones".

How many syllables are in lithops?

lithops has 2 syllables and divides as li-thops 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 lithops?

Close synonyms include living stone, stoneface, stone-face, stone plant, stone life face. 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 lithops a common word?

lithops 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.