strophanthus

1. 1.

   any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds

   Broadershrub

   NarrowerStrophanthus kombe

   Part ofgenus Strophanthus

Other forms of strophanthus

plural

strophanthuses·

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 strophanthus

What does strophanthus mean?

strophanthus means "any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds".

How many syllables are in strophanthus?

strophanthus has 3 syllables: stro-phan-thus. The stress falls on "stro".

Is strophanthus a common word?

strophanthus 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.