totara

Questions about totara

What does totara mean?

totara means "valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves".

How many syllables are in totara?

totara has 3 syllables and divides as to-ta-ra 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 totara?

Close synonyms include Podocarpus totara. 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 totara a common word?

totara 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.