pithecellobium

Questions about pithecellobium

What does pithecellobium mean?

pithecellobium means "thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia".

How many syllables are in pithecellobium?

pithecellobium has 6 syllables: pi-the-cel-lo-bi-um. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for pithecellobium?

Close synonyms include genus Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium, genus Pithecolobium. 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 pithecellobium a common word?

pithecellobium 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.