pithecolobium

Questions about pithecolobium

What does pithecolobium mean?

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

How many syllables are in pithecolobium?

pithecolobium has 6 syllables and divides as pi-the-co-lo-bi-um 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 pithecolobium?

Close synonyms include Pithecellobium, genus Pithecellobium, 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 pithecolobium a common word?

pithecolobium 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.