rudbeckia

Questions about rudbeckia

What does rudbeckia mean?

rudbeckia means "North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads".

How many syllables are in rudbeckia?

rudbeckia has 4 syllables and divides as rud-bec-ki-a 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 rudbeckia?

Close synonyms include genus Rudbeckia. 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 rudbeckia a common word?

rudbeckia 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.