coleus

1. 1.

   any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers

   Synonymsflame nettle

   Broaderherb

   Narrowercountry boragepainted nettle

   Part ofgenus Coleus

Other forms of coleus

plural

coleuses·

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 coleus

What does coleus mean?

coleus means "any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers".

How many syllables are in coleus?

coleus has 3 syllables: co-le-us. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊliəs/.

What is another word for coleus?

Close synonyms include flame nettle. 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 coleus a common word?

coleus 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.