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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
xeranthemum is a noun meaning "any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers". It carries one recorded sense.
any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for xeranthemum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.