nyctaginia

Questions about nyctaginia

What does nyctaginia mean?

nyctaginia means "a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species".

How many syllables are in nyctaginia?

nyctaginia has 5 syllables and divides as nyc-ta-gi-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 nyctaginia?

Close synonyms include genus Nyctaginia. 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 nyctaginia a common word?

nyctaginia 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.