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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
halesia is a noun meaning "deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America". It carries one recorded sense.
deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America
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 halesia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.