compass flower

1. 1.

   any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass

   Synonymscompass plant

   Broadercomposite

   Narrowerprickly lettucerosinweed

   Part ofCompositae

Questions about compass flower

What does compass flower mean?

compass flower means "any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass".

What is another word for compass flower?

Close synonyms include compass plant. 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 compass flower a common word?

compass 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.