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rhamnus

noun

rhamnus is a noun meaning “Any of the plants in the genus Rhamnus; a buckthorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-A-M-N-U-S, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhamnus is rhamnuses.

What does rhamnus mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the plants in the genus Rhamnus; a buckthorn.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of rhamnus

  • rhamnuses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rhamnus?

Rhamnus appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Where does rhamnus come from?

From the genus name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).