schomburgkia

Questions about schomburgkia

What does schomburgkia mean?

schomburgkia means "genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with showy racemose flowers".

How many syllables are in schomburgkia?

schomburgkia has 4 syllables and divides as schom-burg-ki-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 schomburgkia?

Close synonyms include genus Schomburgkia. 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 schomburgkia a common word?

schomburgkia 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.