malvaceae

Questions about malvaceae

What does malvaceae mean?

malvaceae means "herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra".

How many syllables are in malvaceae?

malvaceae has 4 syllables and divides as mal-va-ce-ae 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 malvaceae?

Close synonyms include family Malvaceae, mallow family. 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 malvaceae a common word?

malvaceae 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.