montezuma

1. 1.

   evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae

   Broadertree

   Part ofgenus Montezuma

Other forms of montezuma

plural

montezumas·

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 montezuma

What does montezuma mean?

montezuma means "evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae".

How many syllables are in montezuma?

montezuma has 4 syllables: mon-te-zu-ma. The stress falls on "zu". In IPA it is /ˌmɑntɪˈzumə/.

Is montezuma a common word?

montezuma 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.