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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pinckneya is a noun meaning "small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America". It carries one recorded sense.
small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pinckneya come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.