verbena

1. 1.

   any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers

   Synonymsvervain

   Broaderflower

   Part ofgenus Verbena

Other forms of verbena

plural

verbenas·

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 verbena

What does verbena mean?

verbena means "any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers".

How many syllables are in verbena?

verbena has 3 syllables: ver-be-na. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /vɚˈbinə/.

What is another word for verbena?

Close synonyms include vervain. 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 verbena a common word?

verbena is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.