mock azalia

Questions about mock azalia

What does mock azalia mean?

mock azalia means "South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics".

What is another word for mock azalia?

Close synonyms include impala lily, desert rose, kudu lily, Adenium obesum, Adenium multiflorum. 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 mock azalia a common word?

mock azalia 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.