blood flower

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   tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics

   SynonymsswallowwortAsclepias curassavica

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about blood flower

What does blood flower mean?

blood flower means "tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics".

What is another word for blood flower?

Close synonyms include swallowwort, Asclepias curassavica. 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 blood flower a common word?

blood 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.