pachysandra

1. 1.

   any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

   Broadersubshrub

   NarrowerAllegheny spurgeJapanese spurge

   Part ofgenus Pachysandra

Other forms of pachysandra

plural

pachysandras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pachysandra

What does pachysandra mean?

pachysandra means "any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover".

How many syllables are in pachysandra?

pachysandra has 4 syllables: pac-hy-san-dra. The stress falls on "san". In IPA it is /ˌpætʃɪˈsændɹə/.

Is pachysandra a common word?

pachysandra 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.

What rhymes with pachysandra?

1 word rhymes with pachysandra. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.