Moss Spelling Dictionary

Someone typed lenularia. Which liverwort is it?

heard as lenularia

spelled lunularia

Lunularia, the crescent-cup liverwort of pots and paths.

What the ear did

The vowels have been guessed and the shape of the word has survived. Everything before the stress in this name is uncertain to the ear, which is why searching for it by sound is so unreliable.

Sound decision: an unstressed vowel blurring. Said loon-yoo-LAIR-ee-uh.

L-U-N-U-L-A-R-I-A

The full entry for lunularia covers the name itself.

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