tongueflower

Questions about tongueflower

What does tongueflower mean?

tongueflower means "orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base".

How many syllables are in tongueflower?

tongueflower has 4 syllables and divides as ton-gue-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 tongueflower?

Close synonyms include tongue-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 tongueflower a common word?

tongueflower 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.