Word.ws English Dictionary

rhipsalis

/ˈrɪpsəlɪs/

rhipsalis noun: any plant of the genus Rhipsalis, epiphytic flowering plants in the cactus family, often known as mistletoe cacti.

rhipsalis: any plant of the genus Rhipsalis, epiphytic flowering plants in the cactus family, often known as...
Image: salchu, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

rhipsalis (plural rhipsalis or rhipsales)

  1. Any plant of the genus Rhipsalis, epiphytic flowering plants in the cactus family, often known as mistletoe cacti.

Forms of rhipsalis

pluralrhipsalis
pluralrhipsales

Origin of rhipsalis

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥίψ (rhíps, “wickerwork”) + Latin -alis (“-al”).

Questions about rhipsalis

What does rhipsalis mean?
Rhipsalis means any plant of the genus Rhipsalis, epiphytic flowering plants in the cactus family, often known as mistletoe cacti.
What part of speech is rhipsalis?
Rhipsalis is a noun.
How do you pronounce rhipsalis?
Rhipsalis is pronounced /ˈrɪpsəlɪs/.
What is the plural of rhipsalis?
The plural of rhipsalis is rhipsalis.

Words near rhipsalis in the dictionary

  1. rhipidoglossan
  2. rhipidoglossans
  3. rhipidopterous
  4. rhipiphorid
  5. rhipiphorids
  6. rhipsalis
  7. RHIs
  8. rhithral
  9. Rhiw
  10. Rhiwbina
  11. rhiz-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rhipsalis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rhipsalis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rhipsalis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.