totara

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsPodocarpus totara

   Broaderconifer

   Part ofPodocarpus

Other forms of totara

plural

totaras·

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 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: to-ta-ra. The stress falls on "to".

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.