genus osmanthus

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   widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan

   SynonymsOsmanthus

   Broaderdicot genus

   Part ofOleaceae

Questions about genus osmanthus

What does genus osmanthus mean?

genus osmanthus means "widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan".

What is another word for genus osmanthus?

Close synonyms include Osmanthus. 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 genus osmanthus a common word?

genus osmanthus 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.