rhamnus

Questions about rhamnus

What does rhamnus mean?

rhamnus means "type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns".

How many syllables are in rhamnus?

rhamnus has 2 syllables and divides as rham-nus 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 rhamnus?

Close synonyms include genus Rhamnus. 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 rhamnus a common word?

rhamnus 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.