jacquinia keyensis

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   West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood

   Synonymsbarbascojoewood

   Broadershrub

   Part ofJacquinia

Questions about jacquinia keyensis

What does jacquinia keyensis mean?

jacquinia keyensis means "West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood".

What is another word for jacquinia keyensis?

Close synonyms include barbasco, joewood. 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 jacquinia keyensis a common word?

jacquinia keyensis 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.