feijoa

1. 1.

   South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit

   Synonymsfeijoa bush

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Feijoa
2. 2.

   dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves

   Synonymspineapple guava

   Broaderedible fruit

Other forms of feijoa

plural

feijoas·

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 feijoa

What does feijoa mean?

feijoa means "South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feijoa?

feijoa has 3 syllables: fe-i-joa. The stress falls on "fe".

What is another word for feijoa?

Close synonyms include feijoa bush, pineapple guava. 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 feijoa a common word?

feijoa 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.