creosote bush

Questions about creosote bush

What does creosote bush mean?

creosote bush means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers".

What is another word for creosote bush?

Close synonyms include coville, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata. 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 creosote bush a common word?

creosote bush 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.