common devil's claw

Questions about common devil's claw

What does common devil's claw mean?

common devil's claw means "annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak".

What is another word for common devil's claw?

Close synonyms include common unicorn plant, devil's claw, elephant-tusk, proboscis flower, ram's horn. 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 common devil's claw a common word?

common devil's claw 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.