chimonanthus

Questions about chimonanthus

What does chimonanthus mean?

chimonanthus means "small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter sweet".

How many syllables are in chimonanthus?

chimonanthus has 4 syllables and divides as chi-mo-nan-thus 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 chimonanthus?

Close synonyms include genus Chimonanthus. 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 chimonanthus a common word?

chimonanthus 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.