oleaceous

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family

Questions about oleaceous

What does oleaceous mean?

oleaceous means "of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family".

How many syllables are in oleaceous?

oleaceous has 5 syllables and divides as o-le-a-ce-ous 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.

Is oleaceous a common word?

oleaceous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.