centaurea scabiosa

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   tall European perennial having purple flower heads

   Synonymsgreat knapweedgreater knapweed

   Broaderknapweed

Questions about centaurea scabiosa

What does centaurea scabiosa mean?

centaurea scabiosa means "tall European perennial having purple flower heads".

What is another word for centaurea scabiosa?

Close synonyms include great knapweed, greater knapweed. 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 scabiosa a common word?

centaurea scabiosa 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.