dotted gayfeather

1. 1.

   herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico

   SynonymsLiatris punctata

   Broaderblazing star

Questions about dotted gayfeather

What does dotted gayfeather mean?

dotted gayfeather means "herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico".

What is another word for dotted gayfeather?

Close synonyms include Liatris punctata. 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 dotted gayfeather a common word?

dotted gayfeather 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.