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ixora

ixora noun: any of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora.

ixora: any of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora
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Noun

ixora (plural ixoras)

  1. Any of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora.
    • He could see[…]some ragged red ixora hedges that need fixing up.2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 26

Forms of ixora

pluralixoras

Origin of ixora

Borrowed from translingual Ixora, from Sanskrit ई॒श्व॒र (īśvará).

Questions about ixora

What does ixora mean?
Ixora means any of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora.
What part of speech is ixora?
Ixora is a noun.
What is the plural of ixora?
The plural of ixora is ixoras.

Words near ixora in the dictionary

  1. ixodorhynchid
  2. ixodorhynchids
  3. ixolaris
  4. ixolite
  5. Ixopo
  6. ixora
  7. ixoras
  8. ixoroside
  9. ixotrichodermium
  10. IXP
  11. IXPs

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