Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetable ivory tree

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: veg-etable ivory tree
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.

Example Sentences

"The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum."

Inflected Forms

vegetable ivory trees (plural)

Questions

What does vegetable ivory tree mean?: A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.

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