deer's-ears

Questions about deer's-ears

What is another word for deer's-ears?

It depends which deer's-ears you mean. In the sense “any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington”, the synonyms are columbo, American columbo, deer's-ear, pyramid plant, American gentian. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of deer's-ears?

WordNet records no antonym for deer's-ears. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for deer's-ears come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of deer's-ears

• Full entry for deer's-earsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for deer's-earsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.