scented wattle

Questions about scented wattle

What does scented wattle mean?

scented wattle means "tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery".

What is another word for scented wattle?

Close synonyms include huisache, cassie, mimosa bush, sweet wattle, sweet acacia. 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 scented wattle a common word?

scented wattle 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.