avicennia officinalis

1. 1.

   a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific

   Synonymswhite mangrove

   Broadertree

   Part ofAvicennia

Questions about avicennia officinalis

What does avicennia officinalis mean?

avicennia officinalis means "a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific".

What is another word for avicennia officinalis?

Close synonyms include white mangrove. 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 avicennia officinalis a common word?

avicennia officinalis 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.