eriobotrya japonica

Questions about eriobotrya japonica

What does eriobotrya japonica mean?

eriobotrya japonica means "evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan".

What is another word for eriobotrya japonica?

Close synonyms include loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum. 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 eriobotrya japonica a common word?

eriobotrya japonica 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.