gastrolobium

1. 1.

   any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods

   Synonymspoison bushpoison pea

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Gastrolobium

Other forms of gastrolobium

plural

gastrolobiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gastrolobium

What does gastrolobium mean?

gastrolobium means "any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods".

How many syllables are in gastrolobium?

gastrolobium has 5 syllables: ga-stro-lo-bi-um. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for gastrolobium?

Close synonyms include poison bush, poison pea. 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 gastrolobium a common word?

gastrolobium 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.