indian rhododendron

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   evergreen spreading shrub of India and southeastern Asia having large purple flowers

   SynonymsMelastoma malabathricum

   Broadershrub

Questions about indian rhododendron

What does indian rhododendron mean?

indian rhododendron means "evergreen spreading shrub of India and southeastern Asia having large purple flowers".

What is another word for indian rhododendron?

Close synonyms include Melastoma malabathricum. 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 indian rhododendron a common word?

indian rhododendron 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.