emilia coccinea

Questions about emilia coccinea

What does emilia coccinea mean?

emilia coccinea means "tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia".

What is another word for emilia coccinea?

Close synonyms include tassel flower, Emilia javanica, Emilia flammea, Cacalia javanica, Cacalia lutea. 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 emilia coccinea a common word?

emilia coccinea 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.