Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leucothoe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: leu-cothoe
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the genus Leucothoe of flowering plants.

Example Sentences

"For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe."

Etymology

From the genus name.

Inflected Forms

leucothoes (plural)

Questions

What does leucothoe mean?: Any of the genus Leucothoe of flowering plants.
Where does leucothoe come from?: From the genus name.

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