jagua

Other forms of jagua

plural

jaguas·

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 jagua

What does jagua mean?

jagua means "tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit".

How many syllables are in jagua?

jagua has 3 syllables and divides as ja-gu-a 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 jagua?

Close synonyms include genipap fruit, marmalade box, Genipa Americana. 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 jagua a common word?

jagua 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.