carrizo

1. 1.

   tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts

   Synonymsditch reedcommon reedPhragmites communis

   Broaderreed

   Part ofPhragmites

Other forms of carrizo

plural

carrizoes·

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 carrizo

What does carrizo mean?

carrizo means "tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts".

How many syllables are in carrizo?

carrizo has 3 syllables: car-ri-zo. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carrizo?

Close synonyms include ditch reed, common reed, Phragmites communis. 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 carrizo a common word?

carrizo 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.