juglans cinerea

Questions about juglans cinerea

What does juglans cinerea mean?

juglans cinerea means "North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye".

What is another word for juglans cinerea?

Close synonyms include butternut, butternut tree, white walnut. 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 juglans cinerea a common word?

juglans cinerea 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.