pouteria

Questions about pouteria

What does pouteria mean?

pouteria means "tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)".

How many syllables are in pouteria?

pouteria has 4 syllables and divides as po-u-te-ria 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 pouteria?

Close synonyms include genus Pouteria. 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 pouteria a common word?

pouteria 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.