looking-glass plant

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   small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath

   SynonymsHeritiera littoralis

   Broaderangiospermous tree

Questions about looking-glass plant

What does looking-glass plant mean?

looking-glass plant means "small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath".

What is another word for looking-glass plant?

Close synonyms include Heritiera littoralis. 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 looking-glass plant a common word?

looking-glass plant 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.