mountain devil

1. 1.

   erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar

   Synonymshoneyflowerhoney-flowerLambertia formosa

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLambertia
2. 2.

   desert lizard that feeds on ants

   Synonymsspiny lizardMoloch horridus

   Broadermoloch

   Part ofgenus Moloch

Questions about mountain devil

What does mountain devil mean?

mountain devil means "erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mountain devil?

Close synonyms include honeyflower, honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, spiny lizard, Moloch horridus. 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 devil a common word?

mountain devil 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.