pitahaya

Other forms of pitahaya

plural

pitahayas·

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 pitahaya

What does pitahaya mean?

pitahaya means "cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pitahaya?

pitahaya has 3 syllables: pi-ta-haya. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for pitahaya?

Close synonyms include pitahaya cactus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, Acanthocereus pentagonus. 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 pitahaya a common word?

pitahaya 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.