black mangrove

1. 1.

   an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida

   SynonymsAegiceras majus

   Broadertree

   Part ofAegiceras
2. 2.

   a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground

   SynonymsAvicennia marina

   Broaderblackwood

   Part ofAvicennia

Questions about black mangrove

What does black mangrove mean?

black mangrove means "an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black mangrove?

Close synonyms include Aegiceras majus, Avicennia marina. 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 black mangrove a common word?

black mangrove 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.