basket flower

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   annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets

   SynonymsCentaurea americana

   Broadercentaury

Questions about basket flower

What does basket flower mean?

basket flower means "annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets".

What is another word for basket flower?

Close synonyms include Centaurea americana. 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 basket flower a common word?

basket flower 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.