melastoma malabathricum

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   evergreen spreading shrub of India and southeastern Asia having large purple flowers

   SynonymsIndian rhododendron

   Broadershrub

Questions about melastoma malabathricum

What does melastoma malabathricum mean?

melastoma malabathricum means "evergreen spreading shrub of India and southeastern Asia having large purple flowers".

What is another word for melastoma malabathricum?

Close synonyms include Indian rhododendron. 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 melastoma malabathricum a common word?

melastoma malabathricum 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.