cephalotaxus

Questions about cephalotaxus

What does cephalotaxus mean?

cephalotaxus means "the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews)".

How many syllables are in cephalotaxus?

cephalotaxus has 5 syllables and divides as ce-pha-lo-tax-us 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 cephalotaxus?

Close synonyms include genus Cephalotaxus. 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 cephalotaxus a common word?

cephalotaxus 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.