mimosa

Other forms of mimosa

plural

mimosas·

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 mimosa

What does mimosa mean?

mimosa means "evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mimosa?

mimosa has 3 syllables: mi-mo-sa. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /mɪˈmoʊsə/.

What is another word for mimosa?

Close synonyms include silver wattle, Acacia dealbata, buck's fizz. 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 mimosa a common word?

mimosa 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.

What rhymes with mimosa?

2 words rhyme with mimosa. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.