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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.
mahonia is a noun meaning "evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia". It carries one recorded sense.
evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
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 mahonia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.