haematoxylum

Questions about haematoxylum

What does haematoxylum mean?

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

How many syllables are in haematoxylum?

haematoxylum has 6 syllables and divides as ha-e-ma-tox-y-lum 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 haematoxylum?

Close synonyms include genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, 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 haematoxylum a common word?

haematoxylum 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.