stizolobium

Questions about stizolobium

What does stizolobium mean?

stizolobium means "genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters".

How many syllables are in stizolobium?

stizolobium has 5 syllables and divides as sti-zo-lo-bi-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 stizolobium?

Close synonyms include genus Mucuna, genus Stizolobium. 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 stizolobium a common word?

stizolobium 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.