false dogwood

What does false dogwood mean?

false dogwood means "evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans".

What is another word for false dogwood?

Close synonyms include China tree, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria. 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 false dogwood a common word?

false dogwood 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for false dogwood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.