cacalia lutea

Questions about cacalia lutea

What does cacalia lutea mean?

cacalia lutea means "tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia".

What is another word for cacalia lutea?

Close synonyms include tassel flower, Emilia coccinea, Emilia javanica, Emilia flammea, Cacalia javanica. 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 cacalia lutea a common word?

cacalia lutea 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.