rhus trilobata

1. 1.

   deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit

   Synonymssquawbushsquaw-bushskunkbush

   Broadersumac

Questions about rhus trilobata

What does rhus trilobata mean?

rhus trilobata means "deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit".

What is another word for rhus trilobata?

Close synonyms include squawbush, squaw-bush, skunkbush. 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 rhus trilobata a common word?

rhus trilobata 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.