erica arborea

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   evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

   Synonymstree heathbriarbrier

   Broadererica

   Partsbriarroot

Questions about erica arborea

What does erica arborea mean?

erica arborea means "evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes".

What is another word for erica arborea?

Close synonyms include tree heath, briar, brier. 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 erica arborea a common word?

erica arborea 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.