amatungulu

1. 1.

   very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves

   Synonymsnatal plumCarissa macrocarpaCarissa grandiflora

   Broadercarissa

   Partscarissa plum

Other forms of amatungulu

plural

amatungulus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amatungulu

What does amatungulu mean?

amatungulu means "very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves".

How many syllables are in amatungulu?

amatungulu has 5 syllables: a-ma-tun-gu-lu. The stress falls on "tun".

What is another word for amatungulu?

Close synonyms include natal plum, Carissa macrocarpa, Carissa grandiflora. 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 amatungulu a common word?

amatungulu 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.