photinia

1. 1.

   genus of deciduous and evergreen east Asian trees and shrubs widely cultivated as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits; in some classifications includes genus Heteromeles

   Synonymsgenus Photinia

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofRosaceae

Other forms of photinia

plural

photinias·

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 photinia

What does photinia mean?

photinia means "genus of deciduous and evergreen east Asian trees and shrubs widely cultivated as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits; in some classifications includes genus Heteromeles".

How many syllables are in photinia?

photinia has 4 syllables: pho-ti-ni-a. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for photinia?

Close synonyms include genus Photinia. 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 photinia a common word?

photinia 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.