cretan dittany

Questions about cretan dittany

What does cretan dittany mean?

cretan dittany means "dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete".

What is another word for cretan dittany?

Close synonyms include dittany of crete, crete dittany, hop marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum dictamnus. 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 cretan dittany a common word?

cretan dittany 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.