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western poison oak

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
west-ern poi-son oak
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vine or small shrub native to western North America, Toxicodendron diversilobum, which exudes a toxic oil containing urushiol that causes a skin rash.

Etymology

From western + poison oak.

Inflected Forms

western poison oaks (plural)

Synonyms

toxicodendron diversilobum rhus diversiloba

Questions

What does western poison oak mean?
A vine or small shrub native to western North America, Toxicodendron diversilobum, which exudes a toxic oil containing urushiol that causes a skin rash.
Where does western poison oak come from?
From western + poison oak.

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