roystonea

Questions about roystonea

What does roystonea mean?

roystonea means "a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms".

How many syllables are in roystonea?

roystonea has 4 syllables and divides as ro-y-sto-nea 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 roystonea?

Close synonyms include genus Roystonea. 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 roystonea a common word?

roystonea 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.