haematoxylon

Questions about haematoxylon

What does haematoxylon mean?

haematoxylon means "small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees".

How many syllables are in haematoxylon?

haematoxylon has 6 syllables and divides as ha-e-ma-tox-y-lon 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 haematoxylon?

Close synonyms include Haematoxylum, genus Haematoxylum, genus Haematoxylon. 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 haematoxylon a common word?

haematoxylon 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.