flame nettle

What does flame nettle mean?

flame nettle means "any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers".

What is another word for flame nettle?

Close synonyms include coleus. 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 flame nettle a common word?

flame nettle 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flame nettle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.