colubrina

1. 1.

   mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits

   Synonymsgenus Colubrina

   Broaderdicot genus

   Part ofRhamnaceae

Other forms of colubrina

plural

colubrinas·

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 colubrina

What does colubrina mean?

colubrina means "mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits".

How many syllables are in colubrina?

colubrina has 4 syllables: co-lu-bri-na. The stress falls on "lu".

What is another word for colubrina?

Close synonyms include genus Colubrina. 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 colubrina a common word?

colubrina 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.