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polemonium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pole-mo-ni-um
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the genus Polemonium of gamopetalous perennial herbs.

Etymology

From the genus name translingual Polemonium, from Ancient Greek πολεμώνιον (polemṓnion), from Πολέμων (Polémōn) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”) + -ων (-ōn, possessive name suffix).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Polemonium, πολεμώνιον

Inflected Forms

polemoniums (plural)

Phrases

Vanbrunt's polemonium

Questions

What does polemonium mean?
Any of the genus Polemonium of gamopetalous perennial herbs.
Where does polemonium come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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