bleeding heart

Questions about bleeding heart

What does bleeding heart mean?

bleeding heart means "garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bleeding heart?

Close synonyms include lyreflower, lyre-flower, Dicentra spectabilis. 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 bleeding heart a common word?

bleeding heart 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.