azederach

Other forms of azederach

plural

azederaches·

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 azederach

What does azederach mean?

azederach 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 azederach?

azederach has 4 syllables and divides as a-ze-de-rach 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 azederach?

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 azederach a common word?

azederach 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.