scaphosepalum

Questions about scaphosepalum

What does scaphosepalum mean?

scaphosepalum means "comprises some tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants with small flowers carried on one scape".

How many syllables are in scaphosepalum?

scaphosepalum has 5 syllables and divides as sca-pho-se-pa-lum 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 scaphosepalum?

Close synonyms include genus Scaphosepalum. 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 scaphosepalum a common word?

scaphosepalum 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.