margosa

Other forms of margosa

plural

margosas·

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 margosa

What does margosa mean?

margosa means "large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia".

How many syllables are in margosa?

margosa has 3 syllables and divides as mar-go-sa 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 margosa?

Close synonyms include neem, neem tree, nim tree, arishth, Azadirachta indica. 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 margosa a common word?

margosa 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.