aucuba
French, noun/o.ky.ba/
aucuba is spelled A-U-C-U-B-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aucuba is a French masculine noun meaning “aucuba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbrisseau ornemental (Garryaceae) à feuilles coriaces et persistantes, d'un vert luisant qui pour certaines…”.
What does aucuba mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaucuba
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbrisseau ornemental (Garryaceae) à feuilles coriaces et persistantes, d'un vert luisant qui pour certaines variétés sont panachées de jaune.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aucuba
- aucubas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aucuba?
- /o.ky.ba/
- \o.ky.ba\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aucuba in French?
aucuba appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).