dirca palustris

Questions about dirca palustris

What does dirca palustris mean?

dirca palustris means "deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers".

What is another word for dirca palustris?

Close synonyms include leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark. 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 dirca palustris a common word?

dirca palustris 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.