rauwolfia

Other forms of rauwolfia

plural

rauwolfias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rauwolfia

What does rauwolfia mean?

rauwolfia means "any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rauwolfia?

rauwolfia has 4 syllables: ra-u-wol-fia. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for rauwolfia?

Close synonyms include rauvolfia. 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 rauwolfia a common word?

rauwolfia 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.