papilionoideae

1. 1.

   alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae

   Synonymssubfamily Papilionoideae

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   NarrowerMedicago

   Part ofLeguminosae

Other forms of papilionoideae

plural

papilionoideaes·

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 papilionoideae

What does papilionoideae mean?

papilionoideae means "alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae".

How many syllables are in papilionoideae?

papilionoideae has 7 syllables: pa-pi-li-o-noi-de-ae. The stress falls on "noi".

What is another word for papilionoideae?

Close synonyms include subfamily Papilionoideae. 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 papilionoideae a common word?

papilionoideae 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.