piperaceae

Questions about piperaceae

What does piperaceae mean?

piperaceae means "tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets".

How many syllables are in piperaceae?

piperaceae has 5 syllables and divides as pi-pe-ra-ce-ae 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 piperaceae?

Close synonyms include family Piperaceae, pepper family. 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 piperaceae a common word?

piperaceae 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.