painted leaf

Questions about painted leaf

What is another word for painted leaf?

It depends which painted leaf you mean. In the sense “poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla”, the synonyms are fire-on-the-mountain, Mexican fire plant, Euphorbia cyathophora. Across all 2 senses there are 9 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 painted leaf?

WordNet records no antonym for painted leaf. 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.

Why are the synonyms for painted leaf split into groups?

Because painted leaf carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for painted leaf 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 painted leaf

• Full entry for painted leafAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for painted leafWhether 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.