comptonia asplenifolia

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   deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers

   Synonymssweet fernComptonia peregrina

   Broadershrub

   Part ofComptonia

Questions about comptonia asplenifolia

What does comptonia asplenifolia mean?

comptonia asplenifolia means "deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers".

What is another word for comptonia asplenifolia?

Close synonyms include sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina. 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 comptonia asplenifolia a common word?

comptonia asplenifolia 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.