thyrsopteris

Questions about thyrsopteris

What does thyrsopteris mean?

thyrsopteris means "a terrestrial tree fern of South America".

How many syllables are in thyrsopteris?

thyrsopteris has 4 syllables and divides as thyr-sop-te-ris 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 thyrsopteris?

Close synonyms include Thyrsopteris elegans. 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 thyrsopteris a common word?

thyrsopteris 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.