nicotiana

Questions about nicotiana

What does nicotiana mean?

nicotiana means "American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage".

How many syllables are in nicotiana?

nicotiana has 5 syllables and divides as ni-co-ti-a-na 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 nicotiana?

Close synonyms include genus Nicotiana. 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 nicotiana a common word?

nicotiana 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.