chigger flower

Questions about chigger flower

What does chigger flower mean?

chigger flower means "erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers".

What is another word for chigger flower?

Close synonyms include butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root. 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 chigger flower a common word?

chigger flower 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.