brompton stock

1. 1.

   European plant with racemes of sweet-scented flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental

   SynonymsMatthiola incana

   Broaderstock

   Part ofMatthiola

Questions about brompton stock

What does brompton stock mean?

brompton stock means "European plant with racemes of sweet-scented flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental".

What is another word for brompton stock?

Close synonyms include Matthiola incana. 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 brompton stock a common word?

brompton stock 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.