oxalis

Other forms of oxalis

plural

oxalises·

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 oxalis

What does oxalis mean?

oxalis means "any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis".

How many syllables are in oxalis?

oxalis has 3 syllables: ox-a-lis. The stress falls on "ox". In IPA it is /ˈɑksələs/.

What is another word for oxalis?

Close synonyms include sorrel, wood sorrel. 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 oxalis a common word?

oxalis 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.