roccella

Questions about roccella

What does roccella mean?

roccella means "a source of the dye archil and of litmus".

How many syllables are in roccella?

roccella has 3 syllables and divides as roc-cel-la 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 roccella?

Close synonyms include Roccella tinctoria. 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 roccella a common word?

roccella 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.