how to pronounce castor

/ˈkɑː.stəɹ/

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castor is pronounced in two syllables

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ɑː

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An example use of castor in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… whither be interred castor before …”

meaning of castor

Castor is a type of oil.

castor frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word castor occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics castor can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that castor can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;