bristly sarsaparilla

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   bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark

   Synonymsbristly sarsparilladwarf elderAralia hispida

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofgenus Aralia

Questions about bristly sarsaparilla

What does bristly sarsaparilla mean?

bristly sarsaparilla means "bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark".

What is another word for bristly sarsaparilla?

Close synonyms include bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder, Aralia hispida. 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 bristly sarsaparilla a common word?

bristly sarsaparilla 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.