lobelia
/loʊˈbi.liə/noun
lobelia is a noun meaning “A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-B-E-L-I-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lobelia is lobelias.
What does lobelia mean?
noun
- 1
A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lobelia?
- UK /ləʊˈbiː.liə/
- US /loʊˈbi.liə/
Lobelia has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lobelia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lobelia
- lobelias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lobelia?
Lobelia appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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).
Lobelia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any plant of the genus Lobelia:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lobelia come from?
Internationalism. Learned borrowing from translingual Lobelia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).