calisaya

1. 1.

   Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark

   SynonymsCinchona officinalisCinchona ledgerianaCinchona calisaya

   Broadercinchona

   Part ofgenus Cinchona

Other forms of calisaya

plural

calisayas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calisaya

What does calisaya mean?

calisaya means "Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark".

How many syllables are in calisaya?

calisaya has 3 syllables: ca-li-saya. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for calisaya?

Close synonyms include Cinchona officinalis, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona calisaya. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calisaya a common word?

calisaya is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.