compass plant

1. 1.

   North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers

   Synonymsprairie bird's-foot trefoilprairie lotusprairie trefoilLotus americanus

   Broadersubshrub
2. 2.

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

   Synonymscompass flower

   Broadercomposite

   Narrowerprickly lettucerosinweed

   Part ofCompositae

Questions about compass plant

What does compass plant mean?

compass plant means "North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for compass plant?

Close synonyms include prairie bird's-foot trefoil, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil, Lotus americanus, compass flower. 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 plant a common word?

compass plant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.