thermopsis

Questions about thermopsis

What does thermopsis mean?

thermopsis means "genus of American and Asiatic showy rhizomatous herbs: bush peas".

How many syllables are in thermopsis?

thermopsis has 3 syllables and divides as ther-mop-sis 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 thermopsis?

Close synonyms include genus Thermopsis. 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 thermopsis a common word?

thermopsis 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.