medinilla

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   tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers

   Synonymsgenus Medinilla

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofMelastomataceae

Other forms of medinilla

plural

medinillas·

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 medinilla

What does medinilla mean?

medinilla means "tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers".

How many syllables are in medinilla?

medinilla has 4 syllables: me-di-nil-la. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for medinilla?

Close synonyms include genus Medinilla. 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 medinilla a common word?

medinilla 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.