statice

1. 1.

   any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers

   Synonymssea lavendermarsh rosemary

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofLimonium

Other forms of statice

plural

statices·

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 statice

What does statice mean?

statice means "any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers".

How many syllables are in statice?

statice has 2 syllables: sta-tice. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for statice?

Close synonyms include sea lavender, marsh rosemary. 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 statice a common word?

statice 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.