pyracantha
noun
pyracantha is a noun meaning “A firethorn, any of the genus Pyracantha of thorny evergreen large shrubs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-Y-R-A-C-A-N-T-H-A, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pyracantha is pyracanthas.
What does pyracantha mean?
noun
- 1
A firethorn, any of the genus Pyracantha of thorny evergreen large shrubs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pyracantha
- pyracanthas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pyracantha?
Pyracantha appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 pyracantha come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).