larrea tridentata

Questions about larrea tridentata

What does larrea tridentata mean?

larrea tridentata means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers".

What is another word for larrea tridentata?

Close synonyms include creosote bush, coville, hediondilla. 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 larrea tridentata a common word?

larrea tridentata 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.