umbelliferous

1. 1.

   relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae

   botany

Questions about umbelliferous

What does umbelliferous mean?

umbelliferous means "relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae".

How many syllables are in umbelliferous?

umbelliferous has 5 syllables and divides as um-bel-li-fe-rous 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.

Is umbelliferous a common word?

umbelliferous 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.