pedilanthus

Questions about pedilanthus

What does pedilanthus mean?

pedilanthus means "tropical American succulent shrubs".

How many syllables are in pedilanthus?

pedilanthus has 4 syllables and divides as pe-di-lan-thus 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 pedilanthus?

Close synonyms include genus Pedilanthus. 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 pedilanthus a common word?

pedilanthus 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.