sparmannia

Questions about sparmannia

What does sparmannia mean?

sparmannia means "small genus of tropical African shrubs".

How many syllables are in sparmannia?

sparmannia has 4 syllables and divides as spar-man-ni-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 sparmannia?

Close synonyms include genus Sparmannia. 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 sparmannia a common word?

sparmannia 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.