clintonia uniflora

1. 1.

   plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana

   Synonymsqueen's cupbride's bonnet

   Broaderclintonia

   Part ofgenus Clintonia

Questions about clintonia uniflora

What does clintonia uniflora mean?

clintonia uniflora means "plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana".

What is another word for clintonia uniflora?

Close synonyms include queen's cup, bride's bonnet. 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 clintonia uniflora a common word?

clintonia uniflora 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.