carissa bispinosa

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   South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging

   Synonymshedge thornnatal plum

   Broadercarissa

Questions about carissa bispinosa

What does carissa bispinosa mean?

carissa bispinosa means "South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging".

What is another word for carissa bispinosa?

Close synonyms include hedge thorn, natal plum. 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 carissa bispinosa a common word?

carissa bispinosa 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.