protium

1. 1.

   genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi

   Synonymsgenus Protium

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofBurseraceae

Other forms of protium

plural

protiums·

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 protium

What does protium mean?

protium means "genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi".

How many syllables are in protium?

protium has 3 syllables: pro-ti-um. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹoʊtiəm/.

What is another word for protium?

Close synonyms include genus Protium. 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 protium a common word?

protium 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.