physostigma

Questions about physostigma

What does physostigma mean?

physostigma means "African woody vines: calabar beans".

How many syllables are in physostigma?

physostigma has 4 syllables and divides as phy-so-stig-ma 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 physostigma?

Close synonyms include genus Physostigma. 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 physostigma a common word?

physostigma 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.