devil's claw

Questions about devil's claw

What does devil's claw mean?

devil's claw means "annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak".

What is another word for devil's claw?

Close synonyms include common unicorn plant, common devil's claw, elephant-tusk, proboscis flower, ram's horn. 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 devil's claw a common word?

devil's claw 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.