swertia

Questions about swertia

What does swertia mean?

swertia means "genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa".

How many syllables are in swertia?

swertia has 3 syllables and divides as swer-ti-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 swertia?

Close synonyms include genus Swertia. 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 swertia a common word?

swertia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.