ginep

Other forms of ginep

plural

gineps·

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 ginep

What does ginep mean?

ginep means "tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp".

How many syllables are in ginep?

ginep has 2 syllables and divides as gi-nep 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 ginep?

Close synonyms include Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, genip. 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 ginep a common word?

ginep is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.