orites excelsa

1. 1.

   Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers

   Synonymsprickly ash

   Broadertree

   Part ofOrites

Questions about orites excelsa

What does orites excelsa mean?

orites excelsa means "Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers".

What is another word for orites excelsa?

Close synonyms include prickly ash. 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 orites excelsa a common word?

orites excelsa 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.