diospyros

Questions about diospyros

What does diospyros mean?

diospyros means "a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood".

How many syllables are in diospyros?

diospyros has 4 syllables and divides as di-o-spy-ros 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 diospyros?

Close synonyms include genus Diospyros. 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 diospyros a common word?

diospyros 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.