trumpet tree

Questions about trumpet tree

What does trumpet tree mean?

trumpet tree means "tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems".

What is another word for trumpet tree?

Close synonyms include trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, snake wood, imbauba, Cecropia peltata. 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 trumpet tree a common word?

trumpet tree 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.