crown-of-the-field

1. 1.

   European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

   Synonymscorn cocklecorn campionAgrostemma githago

   Broaderweed

   Part ofAgrostemma

Questions about crown-of-the-field

What does crown-of-the-field mean?

crown-of-the-field means "European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America".

How many syllables are in crown-of-the-field?

crown-of-the-field has 4 syllables: crow-n-of--the--field. The stress falls on "n-of-".

What is another word for crown-of-the-field?

Close synonyms include corn cockle, corn campion, Agrostemma githago. 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 crown-of-the-field a common word?

crown-of-the-field 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.