chincherinchee

Questions about chincherinchee

What does chincherinchee mean?

chincherinchee means "South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers".

How many syllables are in chincherinchee?

chincherinchee has 4 syllables: chin-che-rin-chee. The stress falls on "che".

What is another word for chincherinchee?

Close synonyms include wonder flower, Ornithogalum thyrsoides. 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 chincherinchee a common word?

chincherinchee 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chincherinchee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.