dalbergia

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   large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers

   Synonymsgenus Dalbergia

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Other forms of dalbergia

plural

dalbergias·

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 dalbergia

What does dalbergia mean?

dalbergia means "large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers".

How many syllables are in dalbergia?

dalbergia has 4 syllables: dal-ber-gi-a. The stress falls on "ber".

What is another word for dalbergia?

Close synonyms include genus Dalbergia. 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 dalbergia a common word?

dalbergia 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.