prunus dulcis

Questions about prunus dulcis

What does prunus dulcis mean?

prunus dulcis means "small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California".

What is another word for prunus dulcis?

Close synonyms include almond, sweet almond, Prunus amygdalus, Amygdalus communis. 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 prunus dulcis a common word?

prunus dulcis 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.