lychnis

Questions about lychnis

What is another word for lychnis?

It depends which lychnis you mean. In the sense “mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone”, the synonyms are catchfly. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 lychnis?

WordNet records no antonym for lychnis. 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 lychnis 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 lychnis

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