smilax rotundifolia

Questions about smilax rotundifolia

What does smilax rotundifolia mean?

smilax rotundifolia means "a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries".

What is another word for smilax rotundifolia?

Close synonyms include bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier. 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 smilax rotundifolia a common word?

smilax rotundifolia 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.