volvariella

Questions about volvariella

What does volvariella mean?

volvariella means "an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient".

How many syllables are in volvariella?

volvariella has 4 syllables and divides as vol-va-riel-la 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.

What is another word for volvariella?

Close synonyms include genus Volvariella. 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 volvariella a common word?

volvariella 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.