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echium

/ˈɛkiəm/noun

echium is a noun meaning “Any member of the genus Echium of flowering plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-C-H-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of echium is echiums.

What does echium mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any member of the genus Echium of flowering plants.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce echium?

  • /ˈɛkiəm/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of echium

  • echiums plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is echium?

Echium appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 echium come from?

Borrowed from translingual Echium.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).