ERICA ARBOREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Erica arborea mean? 

• ERICA ARBOREA (noun)
  The noun ERICA ARBOREA has 1 sense:

1. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

  Familiarity information: ERICA ARBOREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERICA ARBOREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath

Hypernyms ("Erica arborea" is a kind of...):

erica; true heath (any plant of the genus Erica)

Meronyms (parts of "Erica arborea"):

briarroot (hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea)