potentilla

Questions about potentilla

What does potentilla mean?

potentilla means "chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil".

How many syllables are in potentilla?

potentilla has 4 syllables and divides as po-ten-til-la 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 potentilla?

Close synonyms include genus Potentilla. 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 potentilla a common word?

potentilla 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.