lindera benzoin

Questions about lindera benzoin

What does lindera benzoin mean?

lindera benzoin means "deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries".

What is another word for lindera benzoin?

Close synonyms include spicebush, spice bush, American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum. 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 lindera benzoin a common word?

lindera benzoin 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.