psychopsis

Questions about psychopsis

What does psychopsis mean?

psychopsis means "epiphytic orchids of Central and South America formerly included in genus Oncidium".

How many syllables are in psychopsis?

psychopsis has 3 syllables and divides as psy-chop-sis 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 psychopsis?

Close synonyms include genus Psychopsis. 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 psychopsis a common word?

psychopsis 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.