lycopersicon

Questions about lycopersicon

What does lycopersicon mean?

lycopersicon means "tomatoes".

How many syllables are in lycopersicon?

lycopersicon has 5 syllables and divides as ly-co-per-si-con 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 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.