garcinia cambogia

1. 1.

   low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered

   Synonymsgamboge treeGarcinia hanburyiGarcinia gummi-gutta

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofGarcinia

Questions about garcinia cambogia

What does garcinia cambogia mean?

garcinia cambogia means "low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered".

What is another word for garcinia cambogia?

Close synonyms include gamboge tree, Garcinia hanburyi, Garcinia gummi-gutta. 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 garcinia cambogia a common word?

garcinia cambogia 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.