tailflower

Questions about tailflower

What is another word for tailflower?

It depends which tailflower you mean. In the sense “any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers”, the synonyms are anthurium, tail-flower. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 tailflower?

WordNet records no antonym for tailflower. 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 tailflower 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 tailflower

• Full entry for tailflowerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tailflowerWhether 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.