crested coral root

1. 1.

   orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States

   SynonymsHexalectris spicata

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofHexalectris

Questions about crested coral root

What does crested coral root mean?

crested coral root means "orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States".

What is another word for crested coral root?

Close synonyms include Hexalectris spicata. 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 crested coral root a common word?

crested coral root 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.