swanflower

Questions about swanflower

What does swanflower mean?

swanflower 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 swanflower?

swanflower has 3 syllables and divides as swan-flo-wer 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 swanflower?

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

swanflower 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.