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CYRILLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cyrilla mean?
• CYRILLA (noun)
The noun CYRILLA has 1 sense:
1. shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage
Familiarity information: CYRILLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cyrilla; Cyrilla racemiflora; leatherwood; white titi
Hypernyms ("cyrilla" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("cyrilla" is a member of...):
genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)
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