smoke tree

Questions about smoke tree

What does smoke tree mean?

smoke tree means "any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for smoke tree?

Close synonyms include smoke bush, Dalea spinosa. 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 smoke tree a common word?

smoke 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.