umbelliferae

Other forms of umbelliferae

plural

umbelliferaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about umbelliferae

What does umbelliferae mean?

umbelliferae means "plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill".

How many syllables are in umbelliferae?

umbelliferae has 5 syllables: um-bel-li-fe-rae. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for umbelliferae?

Close synonyms include family Umbelliferae, Apiaceae, family Apiaceae, carrot family. 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 umbelliferae a common word?

umbelliferae 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.