laburnum
/ləˈbɝnəm/noun
laburnum is a noun meaning “Any tree of the genus Laburnum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-B-U-R-N-U-M, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of laburnum is laburnums.
What does laburnum mean?
noun
- 1
Any tree of the genus Laburnum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce laburnum?
- US /ləˈbɝnəm/
- UK /ləˈbɜːnəm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-laburnum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of laburnum
- laburnums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is laburnum?
Laburnum appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Laburnum in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any tree of genus Laburnum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cytise, laburnum |
| German | Goldregen |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does laburnum come from?
Borrowed from Latin laburnum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).