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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
phaius is a noun meaning "an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers". It carries one recorded sense.
an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for phaius come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.