spiderflower

Questions about spiderflower

What does spiderflower mean?

spiderflower means "any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers".

How many syllables are in spiderflower?

spiderflower has 4 syllables and divides as spi-der-flo-wer 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 spiderflower?

Close synonyms include cleome. 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 spiderflower a common word?

spiderflower 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.