northern jacob's ladder

Questions about northern jacob's ladder

What is another word for northern jacob's ladder?

It depends which northern jacob's ladder you mean. In the sense “perennial erect herb with white flowers; circumboreal”, the synonyms are Polemonium boreale. 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 northern jacob's ladder?

WordNet records no antonym for northern jacob's ladder. 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 northern jacob's ladder 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.

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• Full entry for northern jacob's ladderAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for northern jacob's ladderWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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