tropaeolum

Questions about tropaeolum

What does tropaeolum mean?

tropaeolum means "a tropical American genus of dicotyledonous climbing or diffuse pungent herbs constituting the family Tropaeolaceae".

How many syllables are in tropaeolum?

tropaeolum has 5 syllables and divides as tro-pa-e-o-lum 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 tropaeolum?

Close synonyms include genus Tropaeolum. 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 tropaeolum a common word?

tropaeolum 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.