Noun
clethra (plural clethras)
- Any of the genus Clethra of flowering shrubs or small trees bearing flowers in clusters.
2008 February 21, Leslie Land, “Don’t Bake the Clethra”, in New York Times:Be warned that heights are more fixed than widths; clethra spreads slowly but indefinitely unless it is restrained.
Translations
plant of the genus Clethra
- Arabic: لَثَاة f (laṯāh), لِثَة f (liṯa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 榿葉樹 / 桤叶树 (qīyèshù)
- Czech: jochovec m
- Danish: konvalbusk c
- Finnish: kletra (fi)
- French: clèthre (fr) m
- German: Zimterle f
- Polish: orszelina (pl) f
- Russian: кле́тра f (klétra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: kletra f
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: kletra f
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