christella

1. 1.

   any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds

   Broaderfern

   Part ofgenus Christella

Other forms of christella

plural

christellas·

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 christella

What does christella mean?

christella means "any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds".

How many syllables are in christella?

christella has 3 syllables: chri-stel-la. The stress falls on "chri".

Is christella a common word?

christella 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.