Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guayabi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: guayabi
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.

Example Sentences

"[...] one of them [park rangers] stoked up a fire of dry wood and guayabi fronds to create the smoke signal [...] when Beeker and Foster first arrived on the site last year, it was so densely overgrown with guayabi and ferns and spindly tropical trees that they came within inches of accidentally stepping into the holes."

Etymology

From American Spanish [Term?], from Paraguayan Guarani [Term?].

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Inflected Forms

guayavi (alternative)

Questions

What does guayabi mean?: A large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.
Where does guayabi come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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