waxflower

Other forms of waxflower

plural

waxflowers·

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 waxflower

What does waxflower mean?

waxflower means "twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waxflower?

waxflower has 3 syllables and divides as wax-flo-wer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for waxflower?

Close synonyms include Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda, Clusia insignis, Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. 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 waxflower a common word?

waxflower 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.