portulacaceae

Questions about portulacaceae

What does portulacaceae mean?

portulacaceae means "family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas".

How many syllables are in portulacaceae?

portulacaceae has 6 syllables and divides as por-tu-la-ca-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 portulacaceae?

Close synonyms include family Portulacaceae, purslane 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 portulacaceae a common word?

portulacaceae 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.