araucaria

Other forms of araucaria

plural

araucarias·

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 araucaria

What does araucaria mean?

araucaria means "any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds".

How many syllables are in araucaria?

araucaria has 5 syllables and divides as a-ra-u-ca-ria 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.

Is araucaria a common word?

araucaria 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.