enterolobium

1. 1.

   small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia

   Synonymsgenus Enterolobium

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofMimosoideae

Other forms of enterolobium

plural

enterolobiums·

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 enterolobium

What does enterolobium mean?

enterolobium means "small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia".

How many syllables are in enterolobium?

enterolobium has 6 syllables: en-te-ro-lo-bi-um. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for enterolobium?

Close synonyms include genus Enterolobium. 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 enterolobium a common word?

enterolobium 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.