jacob's staff

What does jacob's staff mean?

jacob's staff means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers".

What is another word for jacob's staff?

Close synonyms include ocotillo, coachwhip, vine cactus, Fouquieria splendens. 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 jacob's staff a common word?

jacob's staff 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jacob's staff come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.