tsuga caroliniana

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   medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales

   SynonymsCarolina hemlock

   Broaderhemlock

Questions about tsuga caroliniana

What does tsuga caroliniana mean?

tsuga caroliniana means "medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales".

What is another word for tsuga caroliniana?

Close synonyms include Carolina hemlock. 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 tsuga caroliniana a common word?

tsuga caroliniana 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.