acocanthera spectabilis

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   medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits

   Synonymswinter sweetpoison arrow plantAcocanthera oblongifolia

   Broadershrub

   Part ofAcocanthera

Questions about acocanthera spectabilis

What does acocanthera spectabilis mean?

acocanthera spectabilis means "medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits".

What is another word for acocanthera spectabilis?

Close synonyms include winter sweet, poison arrow plant, Acocanthera oblongifolia. 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 acocanthera spectabilis a common word?

acocanthera spectabilis 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.