maianthemum

Questions about maianthemum

What does maianthemum mean?

maianthemum means "sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae: false lily of the valley".

How many syllables are in maianthemum?

maianthemum has 4 syllables and divides as ma-ian-the-mum 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 maianthemum?

Close synonyms include genus Maianthemum. 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 maianthemum a common word?

maianthemum 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.