monstera

See also: Monstera and monsterą

English

Etymology

From translingual Monstera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔnsˈtɛɹʌ/

Noun

monstera (plural monsteras)

1. (botany) Any of the plants of the genus Monstera, known for their holey leaves.
   • 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 278:

     She watered the monstera plant by the window, which was uncurling a new leaf.

Translations

Any of the plants of the genus Monstera

Albanian: luleshqiponjë (sq) f Finnish: peikonlehti (fi) Greek: μονστέρα (el) f (monstéra) Mongolian: монстера (monstera) Polish: monstera (pl) f Portuguese: monstera f Romanian: filodendron (ro) m Russian: монсте́ра (ru) f (monstéra)

References

• monstera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• monstera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:monstera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Martones, Morantes, Sarmento, Stanmore, artemons, monaster, monteras, nearmost, onstream, storeman, tone arms, tonearms

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

monstera

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Monstera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔnˈstɛ.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: mon‧ste‧ra

Noun

monstera f

1. monstera

Declension

Declension of monstera

	singular	plural
nominative	monstera	monstery
genitive	monstery	monster
dative	monsterze	monsterom
accusative	monsterę	monstery
instrumental	monsterą	monsterami
locative	monsterze	monsterach
vocative	monstero	monstery

Further reading

• monstera in Polish dictionaries at PWN