butterfly flower

Questions about butterfly flower

What does butterfly flower mean?

butterfly flower means "any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butterfly flower?

Close synonyms include poor man's orchid, schizanthus, Bauhinia monandra. 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 butterfly flower a common word?

butterfly 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.