lepidium
/ləˈpɪ.di.əm/noun
lepidium is a noun meaning “Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-P-I-D-I-U-M and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lepidium is lepidiums.
What does lepidium mean?
noun
- 1
Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lepidium?
- US /ləˈpɪ.di.əm/
Lepidium has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
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Forms of lepidium
- lepidiums plural
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How common is lepidium?
Lepidium appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).
Lepidium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plant of the genus Lepidium:
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Where does lepidium come from?
Borrowed from translingual Lepidium, from Latin lepidium and Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion, literally “little scale”), diminutive of λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).