orchidales

Questions about orchidales

What does orchidales mean?

orchidales means "order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae".

How many syllables are in orchidales?

orchidales has 3 syllables and divides as or-chida-les 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 orchidales?

Close synonyms include order Orchidales. 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 orchidales a common word?

orchidales 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.