Grove Spelling Dictionary
a vowel with no colour

Is the first vowel an a, as in carob?

graft: letter 2
Writtenceratonia

seh-ruh-TOH-nee-uh

That is exactly the trap. The tree is called carob in English and Ceratonia in Latin, the two words are unrelated, and they sit next to each other on every nursery label. Carob starts with car and pulls the first syllable of Ceratonia towards it. The Latin keeps the e it inherited from Greek keras.

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