benzoin odoriferum

Questions about benzoin odoriferum

What does benzoin odoriferum mean?

benzoin odoriferum means "deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries".

What is another word for benzoin odoriferum?

Close synonyms include spicebush, spice bush, American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Lindera benzoin. 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 benzoin odoriferum a common word?

benzoin odoriferum 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.