puka

1. 1.

   South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers

   SynonymsGriselinia lucida

   Broadershrub

   Part ofGriselinia
2. 2.

   small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers

   SynonymsMeryta sinclairii

   Broadertree

   Part ofMeryta

Other forms of puka

plural

pukas·

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 puka

What does puka mean?

puka means "South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puka?

puka has 2 syllables: pu-ka. The stress falls on "pu".

What is another word for puka?

Close synonyms include Griselinia lucida, Meryta sinclairii. 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 puka a common word?

puka 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.