flower-of-an-hour

Questions about flower-of-an-hour

What is another word for flower-of-an-hour?

It depends which flower-of-an-hour you mean. In the sense “annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America”, the synonyms are flowers-of-an-hour, bladder ketmia, black-eyed Susan, Hibiscus trionum. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 flower-of-an-hour?

WordNet records no antonym for flower-of-an-hour. 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 flower-of-an-hour 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 flower-of-an-hour

• Full entry for flower-of-an-hourAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for flower-of-an-hourWhether 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.