sagittaria

Questions about sagittaria

What does sagittaria mean?

sagittaria means "genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers".

How many syllables are in sagittaria?

sagittaria has 5 syllables and divides as sa-git-ta-ri-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 sagittaria?

Close synonyms include genus Sagittaria. 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 sagittaria a common word?

sagittaria 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.