omphalotus

Questions about omphalotus

What does omphalotus mean?

omphalotus means "a genus of fungi with a depressed disc in the cap".

How many syllables are in omphalotus?

omphalotus has 4 syllables and divides as om-pha-lo-tus 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 omphalotus?

Close synonyms include genus Omphalotus. 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 omphalotus a common word?

omphalotus 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.