simarouba glauca

1. 1.

   medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits

   Synonymsparadise treebitterwood

   Broaderbitterwood tree

   Part ofSimarouba

Questions about simarouba glauca

What does simarouba glauca mean?

simarouba glauca means "medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits".

What is another word for simarouba glauca?

Close synonyms include paradise tree, bitterwood. 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 simarouba glauca a common word?

simarouba glauca 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.