rauvolfia

Questions about rauvolfia

What does rauvolfia mean?

rauvolfia means "any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives".

How many syllables are in rauvolfia?

rauvolfia has 4 syllables and divides as ra-u-vol-fia 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 rauvolfia?

Close synonyms include rauwolfia. 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 rauvolfia a common word?

rauvolfia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.