cotinus obovatus

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   shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke

   SynonymsAmerican smokewoodchittamwoodCotinus americanus

   Broadersmoke tree

Questions about cotinus obovatus

What does cotinus obovatus mean?

cotinus obovatus means "shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke".

What is another word for cotinus obovatus?

Close synonyms include American smokewood, chittamwood, Cotinus americanus. 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 cotinus obovatus a common word?

cotinus obovatus 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.