quira

Other forms of quira

plural

quiras·

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 quira

What does quira mean?

quira means "hard heavy red wood of a quira tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quira?

quira has 2 syllables: qui-ra. The stress falls on "qui".

What is another word for quira?

Close synonyms include Panama redwood. 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 quira a common word?

quira 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.