jaboncillo

Questions about jaboncillo

What does jaboncillo mean?

jaboncillo means "evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans".

How many syllables are in jaboncillo?

jaboncillo has 4 syllables and divides as ja-bon-cil-lo 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 jaboncillo?

Close synonyms include China tree, false dogwood, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria. 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 jaboncillo a common word?

jaboncillo 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.