cupflower

1. 1.

   Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat

   Synonymschalice vinetrumpet flowerSolandra guttata

   Broadershrub

   Part ofSolandra
2. 2.

   any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers

   Synonymsnierembergia

   Broaderherb

   Narrowerwhitecuptall cupflower

   Part ofgenus Nierembergia

Other forms of cupflower

plural

cupflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cupflower

What does cupflower mean?

cupflower means "Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cupflower?

cupflower has 3 syllables: cup-flo-wer. The stress falls on "cup".

What is another word for cupflower?

Close synonyms include chalice vine, trumpet flower, Solandra guttata, nierembergia. 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 cupflower a common word?

cupflower 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.