amorpha fruticosa

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   dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers

   Synonymsfalse indigobastard indigo

   Broaderamorpha

Questions about amorpha fruticosa

What does amorpha fruticosa mean?

amorpha fruticosa means "dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers".

What is another word for amorpha fruticosa?

Close synonyms include false indigo, bastard indigo. 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 amorpha fruticosa a common word?

amorpha fruticosa 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.