kurchi

Other forms of kurchi

plural

kurchis·

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 kurchi

What does kurchi mean?

kurchi means "tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea".

How many syllables are in kurchi?

kurchi has 2 syllables and divides as kur-chi 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 kurchi?

Close synonyms include ivory tree, conessi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica. 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 kurchi a common word?

kurchi 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.