adenium obesum

Questions about adenium obesum

What does adenium obesum mean?

adenium obesum means "South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics".

What is another word for adenium obesum?

Close synonyms include impala lily, mock azalia, desert rose, kudu lily, Adenium multiflorum. 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 adenium obesum a common word?

adenium obesum 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.