What does "haiku" mean?

A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

What is a synonym for "haiku"?

Common synonyms include: alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic.

Haiku

//haɪˈku// name, noun

name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1
A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
"Some of the results resemble haikus."
2
an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines wordnet
3
A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
"Haiku, a poem"