gidgee

Questions about gidgee

What does gidgee mean?

gidgee means "scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms".

How many syllables are in gidgee?

gidgee has 2 syllables and divides as gid-gee 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 gidgee?

Close synonyms include stinking wattle, Acacia cambegei. 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 gidgee a common word?

gidgee 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.