elegant cat's ears

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   small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana

   Synonymsstar tulipCalochortus elegans

   Broadermariposa

   Part ofCalochortus

Questions about elegant cat's ears

What does elegant cat's ears mean?

elegant cat's ears means "small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana".

What is another word for elegant cat's ears?

Close synonyms include star tulip, Calochortus elegans. 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 elegant cat's ears a common word?

elegant cat's ears 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.