jatropha
French, noun\ja.tʁo.fɑ\
jatropha is spelled J-A-T-R-O-P-H-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jatropha is a French feminine noun meaning “jatropha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbuste de la famille des euphorbiacées, appelé aussi pourghère, dont le fruit fournit une huile qui peut…”.
What does jatropha mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbuste de la famille des euphorbiacées, appelé aussi pourghère, dont le fruit fournit une huile qui peut servir de carburant (Jatropha curcas), et souvent infecté par l'axin, une cochenille (Llaveia axin axin) dont on tire l'aje, une graisse jaune à usage pharmacologique.
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 jatropha
- jatrophas plural
- iatrophe
- jatrophe
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jatropha?
- \ja.tʁo.fɑ\
- \ʒa.tʁo.fɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is jatropha in French?
jatropha appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).