ordeal tree

1. 1.

   evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa

   Synonymsbushman's poisonAcocanthera oppositifoliaAcocanthera venenata

   Broadershrub

   Part ofAcocanthera

Questions about ordeal tree

What does ordeal tree mean?

ordeal tree means "evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa".

What is another word for ordeal tree?

Close synonyms include bushman's poison, Acocanthera oppositifolia, Acocanthera venenata. 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 ordeal tree a common word?

ordeal 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.