aesculus

Questions about aesculus

What does aesculus mean?

aesculus means "deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia".

How many syllables are in aesculus?

aesculus has 4 syllables and divides as a-e-scu-lus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aesculus?

Close synonyms include genus Aesculus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aesculus a common word?

aesculus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.