cocobolo

Questions about cocobolo

What does cocobolo mean?

cocobolo means "a valuable timber tree of tropical South America".

How many syllables are in cocobolo?

cocobolo has 4 syllables and divides as co-co-bo-lo 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 cocobolo?

Close synonyms include Dalbergia retusa. 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 cocobolo a common word?

cocobolo 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.