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dieffenbachia

noun

dieffenbachia is a noun meaning “Any of several plants, of the genus Dieffenbachia, cultivated as houseplants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-E-F-F-E-N-B-A-C-H-I-A, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dieffenbachia is dieffenbachias.

What does dieffenbachia mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several plants, of the genus Dieffenbachia, cultivated as houseplants

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of dieffenbachia

  • dieffenbachias plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is dieffenbachia?

Dieffenbachia appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does dieffenbachia come from?

Borrowed from translingual Dieffenbachia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).