zingiberaceae

Questions about zingiberaceae

What does zingiberaceae mean?

zingiberaceae means "a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales".

How many syllables are in zingiberaceae?

zingiberaceae has 6 syllables and divides as zin-gi-be-ra-ce-ae 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 zingiberaceae?

Close synonyms include family Zingiberaceae, ginger family. 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 zingiberaceae a common word?

zingiberaceae 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.