orbignya

1. 1.

   palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm

   Synonymsgenus Orbignya

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofPalmae

Other forms of orbignya

plural

orbignyas·

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 orbignya

What does orbignya mean?

orbignya means "palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm".

How many syllables are in orbignya?

orbignya has 3 syllables: or-big-nya. The stress falls on "or".

What is another word for orbignya?

Close synonyms include genus Orbignya. 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 orbignya a common word?

orbignya 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.