nierembergia

Questions about nierembergia

What does nierembergia mean?

nierembergia means "any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers".

How many syllables are in nierembergia?

nierembergia has 5 syllables and divides as ni-e-rem-ber-gia 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 nierembergia?

Close synonyms include cupflower. 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 nierembergia a common word?

nierembergia 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.