silver tree

Questions about silver tree

What does silver tree mean?

silver tree means "small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silver tree?

Close synonyms include Leucadendron argenteum, Tarrietia argyrodendron. 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 silver tree a common word?

silver tree is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.