elaeagnus latifolia

1. 1.

   erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit

   Synonymswild olive

   Broaderoleaster

Questions about elaeagnus latifolia

What does elaeagnus latifolia mean?

elaeagnus latifolia means "erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit".

What is another word for elaeagnus latifolia?

Close synonyms include wild olive. 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 elaeagnus latifolia a common word?

elaeagnus latifolia 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.