stephanotis

1. 1.

   any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers

   Broadershrub

   NarrowerMadagascar jasmine

   Part ofgenus Stephanotis

Other forms of stephanotis

plural

stephanotises·

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 stephanotis

What does stephanotis mean?

stephanotis means "any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers".

How many syllables are in stephanotis?

stephanotis has 4 syllables: ste-pha-no-tis. The stress falls on "pha".

Is stephanotis a common word?

stephanotis 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.