dalea spinosa

1. 1.

   greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor

   Synonymssmoke tree

   Broadershrub

   Part ofDalea

Questions about dalea spinosa

What does dalea spinosa mean?

dalea spinosa means "greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor".

What is another word for dalea spinosa?

Close synonyms include smoke tree. 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 dalea spinosa a common word?

dalea spinosa 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.