bitter floom

1. 1.

   any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury

   Synonymsmarsh pinkrose pinkAmerican centaurySabbatia stellarisSabbatia Angularis

   Broadersabbatia

Questions about bitter floom

What does bitter floom mean?

bitter floom means "any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury".

What is another word for bitter floom?

Close synonyms include marsh pink, rose pink, American centaury, Sabbatia stellaris, Sabbatia Angularis. 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 bitter floom a common word?

bitter floom 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.