ponderosa

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   common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature

   Synonymsponderosa pinewestern yellow pinebull pinePinus ponderosa

   Broaderyellow pine

Other forms of ponderosa

plural

ponderosas·

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 ponderosa

What does ponderosa mean?

ponderosa means "common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature".

How many syllables are in ponderosa?

ponderosa has 4 syllables: pon-de-ro-sa. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˌpɑndɚˈoʊsə/.

What is another word for ponderosa?

Close synonyms include ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa. 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 ponderosa a common word?

ponderosa 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.