physalis

Questions about physalis

What does physalis mean?

physalis means "ground cherries".

How many syllables are in physalis?

physalis has 3 syllables and divides as phy-sa-lis 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 physalis?

Close synonyms include genus Physalis. 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 physalis a common word?

physalis 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.