malaxis

Questions about malaxis

What does malaxis mean?

malaxis means "large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan".

How many syllables are in malaxis?

malaxis has 3 syllables and divides as ma-lax-is 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 malaxis?

Close synonyms include genus Malaxis. 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 malaxis a common word?

malaxis 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.