ocotillo

Questions about ocotillo

What does ocotillo mean?

ocotillo means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers".

How many syllables are in ocotillo?

ocotillo has 4 syllables and divides as o-co-til-lo 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 ocotillo?

Close synonyms include coachwhip, Jacob's staff, vine cactus, Fouquieria splendens. 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 ocotillo a common word?

ocotillo 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.