rubus

Questions about rubus

What does rubus mean?

rubus means "large genus of brambles bearing berries".

How many syllables are in rubus?

rubus has 2 syllables and divides as ru-bus 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 rubus?

Close synonyms include genus Rubus. 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 rubus a common word?

rubus 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.