cuckoo flower

Questions about cuckoo flower

What does cuckoo flower mean?

cuckoo flower means "a bitter cress of Europe and America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cuckoo flower?

Close synonyms include lady's smock, cuckooflower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis, ragged robin. 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 cuckoo flower a common word?

cuckoo flower 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.