aletris aurea

1. 1.

   colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States

   Synonymsyellow colicroot

   Broadercolicroot

   Part ofAletris

Questions about aletris aurea

What does aletris aurea mean?

aletris aurea means "colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States".

What is another word for aletris aurea?

Close synonyms include yellow colicroot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aletris aurea a common word?

aletris aurea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.