Hyphenation of opuntia

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word opuntia? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

op-un-tia

Definitions of opuntia:

1.	Large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears

Synonyms of opuntia:

noun	Opuntia, genus Opuntia, caryophylloid dicot genus

Last hyphenations of this language

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