holarrhena pubescens

Questions about holarrhena pubescens

What does holarrhena pubescens mean?

holarrhena pubescens 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 pubescens?

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

holarrhena pubescens 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.