tailflower

Questions about tailflower

What does tailflower mean?

tailflower means "any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers".

How many syllables are in tailflower?

tailflower has 3 syllables and divides as tail-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 tailflower?

Close synonyms include anthurium, tail-flower. 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 tailflower a common word?

tailflower 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.