petunia

Other forms of petunia

plural

petunias·

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 petunia

What does petunia mean?

petunia means "any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in petunia?

petunia has 4 syllables: pe-tu-ni-a. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /pəˈtuniə/.

What is another word for petunia?

Close synonyms include genus Petunia. 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 petunia a common word?

petunia 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.