alpine besseya

1. 1.

   small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico

   SynonymsBesseya alpina

   Broaderkitten-tails

Questions about alpine besseya

What does alpine besseya mean?

alpine besseya means "small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico".

What is another word for alpine besseya?

Close synonyms include Besseya alpina. 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 alpine besseya a common word?

alpine besseya 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.