cyrilla

1. 1.

   shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage

   Synonymsleatherwoodwhite titiCyrilla racemiflora

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Cyrilla

Other forms of cyrilla

plural

cyrillas·

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 cyrilla

What does cyrilla mean?

cyrilla means "shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage".

How many syllables are in cyrilla?

cyrilla has 3 syllables: cy-ril-la. The stress falls on "ril". In IPA it is /sɪˈɹɪlə/.

What is another word for cyrilla?

Close synonyms include leatherwood, white titi, Cyrilla racemiflora. 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 cyrilla a common word?

cyrilla 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.