aucuba

Questions about aucuba

What does aucuba mean?

aucuba means "hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan".

How many syllables are in aucuba?

aucuba has 3 syllables and divides as au-cu-ba 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 aucuba?

Close synonyms include genus Aucuba. 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 aucuba a common word?

aucuba is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.