erythrina vespertilio

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   prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood

   Synonymscork tree

   Broadercoral tree

Questions about erythrina vespertilio

What does erythrina vespertilio mean?

erythrina vespertilio means "prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood".

What is another word for erythrina vespertilio?

Close synonyms include cork tree. 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 erythrina vespertilio a common word?

erythrina vespertilio 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.