schizanthus

Questions about schizanthus

What does schizanthus mean?

schizanthus means "any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers".

How many syllables are in schizanthus?

schizanthus has 3 syllables and divides as schi-zan-thus 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 schizanthus?

Close synonyms include butterfly flower, poor man's orchid. 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 schizanthus a common word?

schizanthus 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.