babassu

Other forms of babassu

plural

babassus·

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 babassu

What does babassu mean?

babassu means "tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory".

How many syllables are in babassu?

babassu has 3 syllables and divides as ba-bas-su 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 babassu?

Close synonyms include babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana. 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 babassu a common word?

babassu 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.