miltonia

Questions about miltonia

What does miltonia mean?

miltonia means "genus of tropical American orchids".

How many syllables are in miltonia?

miltonia has 4 syllables and divides as mil-to-ni-a 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 miltonia?

Close synonyms include genus Miltonia. 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 miltonia a common word?

miltonia 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.