scotch gale

1. 1.

   bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves

   Synonymssweet galeMyrica gale

   Broadershrub

   Part ofMyrica

Questions about scotch gale

What does scotch gale mean?

scotch gale means "bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves".

What is another word for scotch gale?

Close synonyms include sweet gale, Myrica gale. 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 scotch gale a common word?

scotch gale 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.