feijoa
/feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/noun
feijoa is a noun meaning “A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-I-J-O-A, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feijoa is feijoas.
What does feijoa mean?
noun
- 1
A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana).
- 2
The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feijoa?
- /feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/
- /feɪˈd͡ʒoʊ.ə/
- /feɪˈhoʊ.ə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feijoa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feijoa
- feijoas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feijoa?
Feijoa appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Feijoa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shrub:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feijoa come from?
From the New Latin former genus name Feijoa, which was named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó by the German botanist Otto Karl Berg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).