catananche caerulea

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   south European plant having dark-eyed flowers with flat blue rays

   Synonymsblue succorycupid's dart

   Broadercatananche

Questions about catananche caerulea

What does catananche caerulea mean?

catananche caerulea means "south European plant having dark-eyed flowers with flat blue rays".

What is another word for catananche caerulea?

Close synonyms include blue succory, cupid's dart. 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 catananche caerulea a common word?

catananche caerulea 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.