bourgeon

Questions about bourgeon

What does bourgeon mean?

bourgeon means "produce buds, branches, or germinate".

How many syllables are in bourgeon?

bourgeon has 3 syllables and divides as bo-ur-geon 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 bourgeon?

Close synonyms include shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, burgeon forth. 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 bourgeon a common word?

bourgeon 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.