Home › Words › C › clethraclethraclethra means any of the genus Clethra of flowering shrubs or small trees bearing flowers in clusters.EtymologyBorrowed from translingual Clethra.nounAny of the genus Clethra of flowering shrubs or small trees bearing flowers in clusters.e.g.“Be warned that heights are more fixed than widths; clethra spreads slowly but indefinitely unless it is restrained.” — 2008 February 21, Leslie Land, “Don’t Bake the Clethra”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pepperbush 74% match — Any shrub of the genus Clethra. vs clethra →summersweet 72% match — Clethra alnifolia, a deciduous flowering shrub of eastern North America. vs clethra →cleome 68% match — Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome. vs clethra →clianthus 64% match — Any plant of the genus Clianthus. vs clethra →clematis 63% match — Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones. vs clethra →beeplant 62% match — Any of certain shrubs of the genus Cleomella. vs clethra →cedrela 62% match — Any tree of the genus Cedrela. vs clethra →calycanthus 61% match — Any of the genus Calycanthus of sweetshrubs. vs clethra →