Akademik

cyrilla

noun

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

• Syn: ↑leatherwood, ↑white titi, ↑Cyrilla racemiflora

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cyrilla

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\\sə̇ˈrilə\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, after Domenico Cirillo or Cyrillo died 1799 Italian physician

1. capitalized : a small genus of shrubs and trees (family Cyrillaceae) that have flowers with acute twisted petals and wingless fruit

2. -s : a shrub or tree of the genus Cyrilla

Useful english dictionary. 2012.