saintpaulia

Questions about saintpaulia

What does saintpaulia mean?

saintpaulia means "east African herb with nodding flowers; widely cultivated".

How many syllables are in saintpaulia?

saintpaulia has 4 syllables and divides as sa-int-pau-lia 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 saintpaulia?

Close synonyms include genus Saintpaulia. 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 saintpaulia a common word?

saintpaulia 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.