mandevilla

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   genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap

   Synonymsgenus MandevillaDipladeniagenus Dipladenia

   Broaderdicot genus

   Part ofApocynaceae

Other forms of mandevilla

plural

mandevillas·

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 mandevilla

What does mandevilla mean?

mandevilla means "genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap".

How many syllables are in mandevilla?

mandevilla has 4 syllables: man-de-vil-la. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for mandevilla?

Close synonyms include genus Mandevilla, Dipladenia, genus Dipladenia. 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 mandevilla a common word?

mandevilla is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.