epilobium hirsutum

1. 1.

   plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America

   Synonymshairy willowherbcodlins-and-cream

   Broaderwillowherb

Questions about epilobium hirsutum

What does epilobium hirsutum mean?

epilobium hirsutum means "plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America".

What is another word for epilobium hirsutum?

Close synonyms include hairy willowherb, codlins-and-cream. 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 epilobium hirsutum a common word?

epilobium hirsutum 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.