vernonia

1. 1.

   any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue

   Synonymsironweed

   Broaderherb

   Part ofgenus Vernonia

Other forms of vernonia

plural

vernonias·

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 vernonia

What does vernonia mean?

vernonia means "any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue".

How many syllables are in vernonia?

vernonia has 4 syllables: ver-no-ni-a. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /vɚˈnoʊniə/.

What is another word for vernonia?

Close synonyms include ironweed. 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 vernonia a common word?

vernonia 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.