cherimoya

Other forms of cherimoya

plural

cherimoyas·

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 cherimoya

What does cherimoya mean?

cherimoya means "small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cherimoya?

cherimoya has 3 syllables: che-ri-moya. The stress falls on "che".

What is another word for cherimoya?

Close synonyms include cherimoya tree, Annona cherimola, cherimolla. 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 cherimoya a common word?

cherimoya 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.