mesembryanthemum

Questions about mesembryanthemum

What does mesembryanthemum mean?

mesembryanthemum means "South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight".

How many syllables are in mesembryanthemum?

mesembryanthemum has 5 syllables and divides as me-sem-bryan-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 mesembryanthemum?

Close synonyms include genus Mesembryanthemum. 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 mesembryanthemum a common word?

mesembryanthemum 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.