centaurea americana

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   annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets

   Synonymsbasket flower

   Broadercentaury

Questions about centaurea americana

What does centaurea americana mean?

centaurea americana means "annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets".

What is another word for centaurea americana?

Close synonyms include basket flower. 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 centaurea americana a common word?

centaurea americana 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.