helwingia

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   deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan

   Synonymsgenus Helwingia

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofCornaceae

Other forms of helwingia

plural

helwingias·

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 helwingia

What does helwingia mean?

helwingia means "deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan".

How many syllables are in helwingia?

helwingia has 4 syllables: hel-win-gi-a. The stress falls on "win".

What is another word for helwingia?

Close synonyms include genus Helwingia. 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 helwingia a common word?

helwingia 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.