bachelor's button

Questions about bachelor's button

What does bachelor's button mean?

bachelor's button means "an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bachelor's button?

Close synonyms include cornflower, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, globe amaranth, Gomphrena globosa. 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 bachelor's button a common word?

bachelor's button 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.