castanospermum

Questions about castanospermum

What does castanospermum mean?

castanospermum means "a rosid dicot genus of the subfamily Papilionoideae having one species: Moreton Bay chestnut".

How many syllables are in castanospermum?

castanospermum has 5 syllables and divides as ca-sta-no-sper-mum 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 castanospermum?

Close synonyms include genus Castanospermum. 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 castanospermum a common word?

castanospermum 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.