dombeya

1. 1.

   any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Dombeya

Other forms of dombeya

plural

dombeyas·

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 dombeya

What does dombeya mean?

dombeya means "any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves".

How many syllables are in dombeya?

dombeya has 2 syllables: dom-beya. The stress falls on "dom".

Is dombeya a common word?

dombeya 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.