columbo

1. 1.

   any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington

   SynonymsAmerican columbodeer's-eardeer's-earspyramid plantAmerican gentian

   Broaderherb

   Part ofFrasera

Other forms of columbo

plural

columboes·

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 columbo

What does columbo mean?

columbo means "any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington".

How many syllables are in columbo?

columbo has 3 syllables: co-lum-bo. The stress falls on "lum". In IPA it is /ˌkoʊˈlʌmboʊ/.

What is another word for columbo?

Close synonyms include American columbo, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian. 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 columbo a common word?

columbo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with columbo?

1 word rhymes with columbo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.