smilax

Other forms of smilax

plural

smilaxes·

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 smilax

What does smilax mean?

smilax means "sometimes placed in Smilacaceae". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smilax?

smilax has 2 syllables: smi-lax. The stress falls on "smi".

What is another word for smilax?

Close synonyms include genus Smilax, Asparagus asparagoides. 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 smilax a common word?

smilax 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.