oleander

1. 1.

   an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions

   Synonymsrose bayNerium oleander

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Part ofNerium

Other forms of oleander

plural

oleanders·

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 oleander

What does oleander mean?

oleander means "an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions".

How many syllables are in oleander?

oleander has 4 syllables: o-le-an-der. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊliˌændɚ/.

What is another word for oleander?

Close synonyms include rose bay, Nerium oleander. 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 oleander a common word?

oleander 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 oleander?

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