celosia

1. 1.

   annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa

   Synonymsgenus Celosia

   Broadercaryophylloid dicot genus

   Part ofAmaranthaceae

Other forms of celosia

plural

celosias·

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 celosia

What does celosia mean?

celosia means "annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa".

How many syllables are in celosia?

celosia has 4 syllables: ce-lo-si-a. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /tʃɛˈloʊsiə/.

What is another word for celosia?

Close synonyms include genus Celosia. 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 celosia a common word?

celosia 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.