noun
Meaning 1
Any myrtaceous plant of the genus Syzygium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
syzygium
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /sɪˈzɪ.d͡ʒiːəm/
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US: /sɪˈzɪ.ɡi.əm/
noun
Meaning 2
a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Syzygium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
History
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Syzygium, from Ancient Greek συζύγιος (suzúgios, “jointed, connected”).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَيَّاعة (rayyāʕa) — Syzygium sp.
- Arabic: إنْقِران (ʔinqirān) — Syzygium sp.
- Azerbaijani: siziqium — Syzygium sp.
- Chinese Mandarin: 赤楠 (chìnán) — Syzygium sp.
- Chinese Mandarin: 蒲桃 (pútáo) — Syzygium sp.
- Czech: hřebíčkovec — Syzygium sp.
- Esperanto: sizigio — Syzygium sp.
- Finnish: jambolaani — Syzygium sp.
- German: Syzygium — Syzygium sp.
- Ido: sizigio — Syzygium sp.
- Korean: 시지기움 (sijigium) — Syzygium sp.
- Latin: sȳzygium — Syzygium sp.
- Lithuanian: gvazdikmedis — Syzygium sp.
- Polish: czapetka — Syzygium sp.
- Russian: сизи́гиум (sizígium) — Syzygium sp.
- Serbo-Croatian: karanfilovac — Syzygium sp.
- Upper Sorbian: nalikowc — Syzygium sp.