say it: ah-CHOH-uh
ochoa is a noun meaning "United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993)". It carries one recorded sense.
United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993)
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 ochoa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.