scabious

Questions about scabious

What does scabious mean?

scabious means "any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa".

How many syllables are in scabious?

scabious has 3 syllables and divides as sca-bi-ous 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 scabious?

Close synonyms include scabiosa. 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 scabious a common word?

scabious 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.