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say it: kah-stee-LAY-yuh
castilleja is a noun meaning "genus of western North and South American perennials often partially parasitic on roots of grasses". It carries one recorded sense.
genus of western North and South American perennials often partially parasitic on roots of grasses
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for castilleja come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.