mamoncillo

Other forms of mamoncillo

plural

mamoncilloes·

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 mamoncillo

What does mamoncillo mean?

mamoncillo means "tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp".

How many syllables are in mamoncillo?

mamoncillo has 4 syllables: ma-mon-cil-lo. The stress falls on "mon".

What is another word for mamoncillo?

Close synonyms include Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, honey berry, genip, ginep. 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 mamoncillo a common word?

mamoncillo 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.