zea
/ˈziː.ə/
zea noun: any plant of the genus Zea.
Noun
zea (plural zeas)
- Any plant of the genus Zea.
- […] and here the types used are principally the dwarf ones; and those plants of a greater height with decorative foliage like the zeas or variegated maize, which are used to produce the effect of sub-tropical bedding.1948, Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper, Continuous Flower Growing, page 83
Proper noun capitalized: Zea
Zea (plural Zeas)
- A surname.
zea meaning in Kannada
zea in Kannada
- ಜೋಳ
Forms of zea
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | zeas |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Zeas |
Origin of zea
Borrowed from Galician and Spanish Zea, probably a variant of Cea, named after several placenames in the Iberian peninsula.
Words formed from zea
Questions about zea
- What does zea mean?
- Zea means any plant of the genus Zea.
- What is zea in Kannada?
- Zea in Kannada is ಜೋಳ. See Zea meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is zea?
- Zea can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce zea?
- Zea is pronounced /ˈziː.ə/.
- What is the plural of zea?
- The plural of zea is zeas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: zea (page history and authors); Zea (page history and authors); zea (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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