cephalanthera rubra

1. 1.

   orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers

   Synonymsred helleborine

   Broaderhelleborine

   Part ofCephalanthera

Questions about cephalanthera rubra

What does cephalanthera rubra mean?

cephalanthera rubra means "orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers".

What is another word for cephalanthera rubra?

Close synonyms include red helleborine. 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 cephalanthera rubra a common word?

cephalanthera rubra 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.