cercis

1. 1.

   deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States

   Synonymsgenus Cercis

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofPapilionoideae

Other forms of cercis

plural

cercises·

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 cercis

What does cercis mean?

cercis means "deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States".

How many syllables are in cercis?

cercis has 2 syllables: cer-cis. The stress falls on "cer".

What is another word for cercis?

Close synonyms include genus Cercis. 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 cercis a common word?

cercis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.