cananga odorata

1. 1.

   evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental

   Synonymsilang-ilangylang-ylang

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofCananga

Questions about cananga odorata

What does cananga odorata mean?

cananga odorata means "evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental".

What is another word for cananga odorata?

Close synonyms include ilang-ilang, ylang-ylang. 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 cananga odorata a common word?

cananga odorata 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.