large-leaved cucumber tree

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   large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base

   Synonymslarge-leaved magnoliagreat-leaved macrophyllaMagnolia macrophylla

   Broadermagnolia

Questions about large-leaved cucumber tree

What does large-leaved cucumber tree mean?

large-leaved cucumber tree means "large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base".

What is another word for large-leaved cucumber tree?

Close synonyms include large-leaved magnolia, great-leaved macrophylla, Magnolia macrophylla. 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 large-leaved cucumber tree a common word?

large-leaved cucumber tree 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.