sisyrinchium

Questions about sisyrinchium

What does sisyrinchium mean?

sisyrinchium means "chiefly North American grasslike herbs".

How many syllables are in sisyrinchium?

sisyrinchium has 5 syllables and divides as si-sy-rin-chi-um 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 sisyrinchium?

Close synonyms include genus Sisyrinchium. 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 sisyrinchium a common word?

sisyrinchium 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.