corkscrew flower

Questions about corkscrew flower

What does corkscrew flower mean?

corkscrew flower means "perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus".

What is another word for corkscrew flower?

Close synonyms include snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, Vigna caracalla. 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 corkscrew flower a common word?

corkscrew 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.