conocarpus

Questions about conocarpus

What does conocarpus mean?

conocarpus means "monotypic genus of tropical American trees: button tree".

How many syllables are in conocarpus?

conocarpus has 4 syllables and divides as co-no-car-pus 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 conocarpus?

Close synonyms include genus Conocarpus. 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 conocarpus a common word?

conocarpus 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.