photinia
noun
photinia is a noun meaning “Any member of the genus Photinia of small trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-T-I-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of photinia is photinias.
What does photinia mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of the genus Photinia of small trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of photinia
- photinias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is photinia?
Photinia appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 photinia come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).