quarter-vine

What does quarter-vine mean?

quarter-vine means "woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section".

How many syllables are in quarter-vine?

quarter-vine has 3 syllables and divides as quar-ter--vine 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 quarter-vine?

Close synonyms include cross vine, trumpet flower, quartervine, Bignonia capreolata. 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 quarter-vine a common word?

quarter-vine 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quarter-vine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.