cupid's dart

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   south European plant having dark-eyed flowers with flat blue rays

   Synonymsblue succoryCatananche caerulea

   Broadercatananche

Questions about cupid's dart

What does cupid's dart mean?

cupid's dart means "south European plant having dark-eyed flowers with flat blue rays".

What is another word for cupid's dart?

Close synonyms include blue succory, Catananche caerulea. 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 cupid's dart a common word?

cupid's dart 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.