swan-neck

What does swan-neck mean?

swan-neck means "any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan".

How many syllables are in swan-neck?

swan-neck has 2 syllables and divides as swan--neck 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 swan-neck?

Close synonyms include swan orchid, swanflower, swan-flower, swanneck. 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 swan-neck a common word?

swan-neck 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swan-neck come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.