scrophulariaceae

1. 1.

   a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales

   Synonymsfamily Scrophulariaceaefigwort familyfoxglove family

   Broaderasterid dicot family

   Part ofPolemoniales

Other forms of scrophulariaceae

plural

scrophulariaceaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scrophulariaceae

What does scrophulariaceae mean?

scrophulariaceae means "a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales".

How many syllables are in scrophulariaceae?

scrophulariaceae has 7 syllables: scro-phu-la-ri-a-ce-ae. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for scrophulariaceae?

Close synonyms include family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family. 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 scrophulariaceae a common word?

scrophulariaceae 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.