pistia

Questions about pistia

What does pistia mean?

pistia means "pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes".

How many syllables are in pistia?

pistia has 3 syllables and divides as pi-sti-a 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 pistia?

Close synonyms include water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites. 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 pistia a common word?

pistia 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.