cheeseflower

Questions about cheeseflower

What does cheeseflower mean?

cheeseflower means "erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States".

How many syllables are in cheeseflower?

cheeseflower has 4 syllables and divides as chee-se-flo-wer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cheeseflower?

Close synonyms include tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, Malva sylvestris. 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 cheeseflower a common word?

cheeseflower 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.