fouquieria

1. 1.

   resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year

   Synonymsgenus Fouquieria

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofFouquieriaceae

Other forms of fouquieria

plural

fouquierias·

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 fouquieria

What does fouquieria mean?

fouquieria means "resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year".

How many syllables are in fouquieria?

fouquieria has 5 syllables: fo-uq-ui-e-ria. The stress falls on "ui".

What is another word for fouquieria?

Close synonyms include genus Fouquieria. 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 fouquieria a common word?

fouquieria 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.