hydnocarpus

Other forms of hydnocarpus

plural

hydnocarpuses·

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 hydnocarpus

What does hydnocarpus mean?

hydnocarpus means "medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees".

How many syllables are in hydnocarpus?

hydnocarpus has 4 syllables and divides as hyd-no-car-pus 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 hydnocarpus?

Close synonyms include genus Hydnocarpus, Taraktagenos, genus Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos, genus Taraktogenos. 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 hydnocarpus a common word?

hydnocarpus 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.