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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
melocactus is a noun meaning "genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean". It carries one recorded sense.
genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for melocactus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.