psoralea

Questions about psoralea

What does psoralea mean?

psoralea means "widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers".

How many syllables are in psoralea?

psoralea has 4 syllables and divides as pso-ra-le-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 psoralea?

Close synonyms include genus Psoralea. 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 psoralea a common word?

psoralea 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.