azedarach

Other forms of azedarach

plural

azedaraches·

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 azedarach

What does azedarach mean?

azedarach means "tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree".

How many syllables are in azedarach?

azedarach has 4 syllables: a-ze-da-rach. The stress falls on "ze".

What is another word for azedarach?

Close synonyms include chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India. 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 azedarach a common word?

azedarach 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.