hovea

Questions about hovea

What does hovea mean?

hovea means "any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets".

How many syllables are in hovea?

hovea has 3 syllables and divides as ho-ve-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hovea?

Close synonyms include purple pea. 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 hovea a common word?

hovea 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.