artocarpus

Questions about artocarpus

What does artocarpus mean?

artocarpus means "evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit".

How many syllables are in artocarpus?

artocarpus has 4 syllables and divides as ar-to-car-pus 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 artocarpus?

Close synonyms include genus Artocarpus. 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 artocarpus a common word?

artocarpus 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.