centaurea solstitialis

1. 1.

   European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States

   SynonymsBarnaby's thistleyellow star-thistle

   Broaderweed

Questions about centaurea solstitialis

What does centaurea solstitialis mean?

centaurea solstitialis means "European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States".

What is another word for centaurea solstitialis?

Close synonyms include Barnaby's thistle, yellow star-thistle. 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 solstitialis a common word?

centaurea solstitialis 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.