trailing windmills

Questions about trailing windmills

What is another word for trailing windmills?

It depends which trailing windmills you mean. In the sense “trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico”, the synonyms are trailing four o'clock, Allionia incarnata. 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 trailing windmills?

WordNet records no antonym for trailing windmills. 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 trailing windmills 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 trailing windmillsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for trailing windmillsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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