stropharia

Questions about stropharia

What does stropharia mean?

stropharia means "genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae".

How many syllables are in stropharia?

stropharia has 4 syllables and divides as stro-pha-ri-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 stropharia?

Close synonyms include genus Stropharia, ring-stalked fungus. 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 stropharia a common word?

stropharia 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.