desert paintbrush

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   most common paintbrush of western United States dry lands; having erect stems ending in dense spikes of bright orange to red flowers

   SynonymsCastilleja chromosa

   BroaderIndian paintbrush

Questions about desert paintbrush

What does desert paintbrush mean?

desert paintbrush means "most common paintbrush of western United States dry lands; having erect stems ending in dense spikes of bright orange to red flowers".

What is another word for desert paintbrush?

Close synonyms include Castilleja chromosa. 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 desert paintbrush a common word?

desert paintbrush 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.