imbauba

Other forms of imbauba

plural

imbaubas·

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 imbauba

What does imbauba mean?

imbauba means "tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems".

How many syllables are in imbauba?

imbauba has 3 syllables and divides as im-bau-ba 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 imbauba?

Close synonyms include trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, snake wood, Cecropia peltata. 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 imbauba a common word?

imbauba 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.