coville

Other forms of coville

plural

covilles·

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 coville

What does coville mean?

coville means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers".

How many syllables are in coville?

coville has 2 syllables: covi-lle. The stress falls on "covi". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊˌvɪl/.

What is another word for coville?

Close synonyms include creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata. 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 coville a common word?

coville 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.

What rhymes with coville?

10 words rhyme with coville. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.