abronia villosa

1. 1.

   soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico

   Synonymsdesert sand verbena

   Broadersand verbena

Questions about abronia villosa

What does abronia villosa mean?

abronia villosa means "soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico".

What is another word for abronia villosa?

Close synonyms include desert sand verbena. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abronia villosa a common word?

abronia villosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.