oregon grape

Questions about oregon grape

What does oregon grape mean?

oregon grape means "small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for oregon grape?

Close synonyms include Mahonia nervosa, Oregon holly grape, hollygrape, mountain grape, holly-leaves barberry. 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 oregon grape a common word?

oregon grape is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.