viscum

1. 1.

   type genus of the Viscaceae: Old World evergreen shrubs parasitic on many trees including oaks but especially apple trees, poplars, aspens and cottonwoods

   Synonymsgenus Viscum

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofViscaceae

Other forms of viscum

plural

viscums·

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 viscum

What does viscum mean?

viscum means "type genus of the Viscaceae: Old World evergreen shrubs parasitic on many trees including oaks but especially apple trees, poplars, aspens and cottonwoods".

How many syllables are in viscum?

viscum has 2 syllables: vi-scum. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for viscum?

Close synonyms include genus Viscum. 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 viscum a common word?

viscum 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.