antirrhinum
noun
antirrhinum is a noun meaning “Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum of snapdragons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-R-R-H-I-N-U-M, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antirrhinum is antirrhinums.
What does antirrhinum mean?
noun
- 1
Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum of snapdragons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antirrhinum?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Ashby-de-la-pooch-antirrhinum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antirrhinum
- antirrhinums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antirrhinum?
Antirrhinum appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does antirrhinum come from?
From Latin antirrhīnum, variant form of antirrhīnon, anti- + rhino- + -um.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).