mountain azalea

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   creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers

   Synonymsalpine azaleaLoiseleuria procumbens

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLoiseleuria

Questions about mountain azalea

What does mountain azalea mean?

mountain azalea means "creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers".

What is another word for mountain azalea?

Close synonyms include alpine azalea, Loiseleuria procumbens. 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 mountain azalea a common word?

mountain azalea 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.