epigaea repens

1. 1.

   low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers

   Synonymstrailing arbutusmayflower

   Broadershrub

Questions about epigaea repens

What does epigaea repens mean?

epigaea repens means "low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers".

What is another word for epigaea repens?

Close synonyms include trailing arbutus, mayflower. 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 epigaea repens a common word?

epigaea repens 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.