woolly manzanita

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   erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young

   Synonymsdowny manzanitaArctostaphylos tomentosa

   Broadermanzanita

Questions about woolly manzanita

What does woolly manzanita mean?

woolly manzanita means "erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young".

What is another word for woolly manzanita?

Close synonyms include downy manzanita, Arctostaphylos tomentosa. 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 woolly manzanita a common word?

woolly manzanita 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.