false saffron

Questions about false saffron

What is another word for false saffron?

It depends which false saffron you mean. In the sense “thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil”, the synonyms are safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 false saffron?

WordNet records no antonym for false saffron. 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 false saffron 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 false saffron

• Full entry for false saffronAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for false saffronWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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