mercurialis

Questions about mercurialis

What does mercurialis mean?

mercurialis means "a genus of slender herbs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae".

How many syllables are in mercurialis?

mercurialis has 5 syllables and divides as mer-cu-ri-a-lis 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 mercurialis?

Close synonyms include genus Mercurialis. 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 mercurialis a common word?

mercurialis 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.