selaginella

Questions about selaginella

What does selaginella mean?

selaginella means "type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen moss-like plants: spike moss and little club moss".

How many syllables are in selaginella?

selaginella has 5 syllables and divides as se-la-gi-nel-la 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 selaginella?

Close synonyms include genus Selaginella. 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 selaginella a common word?

selaginella 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.