cocculus

Questions about cocculus

What does cocculus mean?

cocculus means "climbing plants or shrubs".

How many syllables are in cocculus?

cocculus has 3 syllables and divides as coc-cu-lus 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 cocculus?

Close synonyms include genus Cocculus. 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 cocculus a common word?

cocculus 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.