nothofagus

Questions about nothofagus

What does nothofagus mean?

nothofagus means "beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech".

How many syllables are in nothofagus?

nothofagus has 4 syllables and divides as no-tho-fa-gus 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 nothofagus?

Close synonyms include genus Nothofagus. 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 nothofagus a common word?

nothofagus 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.