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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.
hylocereus is a noun meaning "genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers". It carries one recorded sense.
genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers
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 hylocereus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.