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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ephedra is a noun meaning "jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds". It carries one recorded sense.
jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ephedra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.