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Definition of Cyrilla
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage.
Group relationships: Genus Cyrilla
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyrilla
Literary usage of Cyrilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"The son of Abgarus, it says, persecuted the Church. S. cyrilla ... But the
Martyrologium Parvum has, " At Rome cyrilla, daughter of Decius ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cyrilla FAMILY. 1847. Glabrous shrubs, or small trees, with simple entire thick
alternate exstipulate leaves, long-persistent or evergreen, ..."
3. The Adventurer in Spain by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1903)
"But though no other girl would look at me, she loved me, this little cyrilla,
and was nowise afraid of me or of my ugly looks. " And one day the great Senor ..."
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