looking glass tree

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   large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath

   SynonymsHeritiera macrophylla

   Broaderangiospermous tree

Questions about looking glass tree

What does looking glass tree mean?

looking glass tree means "large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath".

What is another word for looking glass tree?

Close synonyms include Heritiera 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 looking glass tree a common word?

looking glass 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.