ombu

1. 1.

   fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves

   Synonymsbella sombraPhytolacca dioica

   Broaderpokeweed

Other forms of ombu

plural

ombus·

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.

Questions about ombu

What does ombu mean?

ombu means "fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves".

How many syllables are in ombu?

ombu has 2 syllables: om-bu. The stress falls on "om".

What is another word for ombu?

Close synonyms include bella sombra, Phytolacca dioica. 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 ombu a common word?

ombu 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.