cercidium

1. 1.

   spiny shrubs or small trees sometimes placed in genus Parkinsonia: paloverde

   Synonymsgenus Cercidium

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofCaesalpinioideae

Other forms of cercidium

plural

cercidiums·

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 cercidium

What does cercidium mean?

cercidium means "spiny shrubs or small trees sometimes placed in genus Parkinsonia: paloverde".

How many syllables are in cercidium?

cercidium has 4 syllables: cer-ci-di-um. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for cercidium?

Close synonyms include genus Cercidium. 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 cercidium a common word?

cercidium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.