Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waterboom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter-boom
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Syzygium cordatum, a tree typically growing out of wet ground.

Archaic; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On nearing Bacchus Marsh the country becomes wooded, mostly with stunted swamp gums, which look very much like our waterboom, a valueless kind of tree."

Etymology

Afrikaans or English water + Afrikaans boom (“tree”)

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Root: boom

Usage

Questions

What does waterboom mean?: Syzygium cordatum, a tree typically growing out of wet ground.
Where does waterboom come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

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