taraxacum

Questions about taraxacum

What does taraxacum mean?

taraxacum means "an asterid dicot genus of the family Compositae including dandelions".

How many syllables are in taraxacum?

taraxacum has 4 syllables and divides as ta-rax-a-cum 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 taraxacum?

Close synonyms include genus Taraxacum. 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 taraxacum a common word?

taraxacum 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.