ramontchi

Other forms of ramontchi

plural

ramontchis·

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 ramontchi

What does ramontchi mean?

ramontchi means "small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums".

How many syllables are in ramontchi?

ramontchi has 3 syllables and divides as ra-mont-chi 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 ramontchi?

Close synonyms include governor's plum, governor plum, Madagascar plum, batoko palm, Flacourtia indica. 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 ramontchi a common word?

ramontchi 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.