butterfly plant

Questions about butterfly plant

What does butterfly plant mean?

butterfly plant means "orchid having large elliptic to obovate fleshy leaves and fragrant pink-and-white flowers dotted with red". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butterfly plant?

Close synonyms include Phalaenopsis amabilis, oncidium, dancing lady orchid, butterfly orchid. 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 plant a common word?

butterfly plant 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.