red periwinkle

Questions about red periwinkle

What is another word for red periwinkle?

It depends which red periwinkle you mean. In the sense “commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers”, the synonyms are periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, Cape periwinkle, cayenne jasmine, Catharanthus roseus, Vinca rosea. Across all 1 sense there are 8 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 red periwinkle?

WordNet records no antonym for red periwinkle. 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 red periwinkle 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 red periwinkle

• Full entry for red periwinkleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for red periwinkleWhether 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.