caracolito

1. 1.

   large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families

   SynonymsRuptiliocarpon caracolito

   Broadertree

   Part ofRuptiliocarpon

Other forms of caracolito

plural

caracolitoes·

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 caracolito

What does caracolito mean?

caracolito means "large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families".

How many syllables are in caracolito?

caracolito has 5 syllables: ca-ra-co-li-to. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for caracolito?

Close synonyms include Ruptiliocarpon caracolito. 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 caracolito a common word?

caracolito 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.