holarrhena antidysenterica

Questions about holarrhena antidysenterica

What does holarrhena antidysenterica mean?

holarrhena antidysenterica means "tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea".

What is another word for holarrhena antidysenterica?

Close synonyms include ivory tree, conessi, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens. 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 holarrhena antidysenterica a common word?

holarrhena antidysenterica 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.