lycopersicon

Questions about lycopersicon

What does lycopersicon mean?

lycopersicon means "tomatoes".

How many syllables are in lycopersicon?

lycopersicon has 5 syllables: ly-co-per-si-con. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for lycopersicon?

Close synonyms include genus Lycopersicon, Lycopersicum, genus Lycopersicum. 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 lycopersicon a common word?

lycopersicon 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.