peireskia

Questions about peireskia

What does peireskia mean?

peireskia means "genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers".

How many syllables are in peireskia?

peireskia has 4 syllables and divides as pe-i-re-skia 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 peireskia?

Close synonyms include Pereskia, genus Pereskia, genus Peireskia. 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 peireskia a common word?

peireskia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.