swamp azalea

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   shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle

   Synonymsswamp honeysucklewhite honeysuckleRhododendron viscosum

   Broaderrhododendron

Questions about swamp azalea

What does swamp azalea mean?

swamp azalea means "shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle".

What is another word for swamp azalea?

Close synonyms include swamp honeysuckle, white honeysuckle, Rhododendron viscosum. 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 swamp azalea a common word?

swamp azalea 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.