flameflower

1. 1.

   a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

   Synonymskniphofiatritomaflame flowerflame-flower

   Broaderherb

   Narrowerpoker plant

   Part ofgenus Kniphofia
2. 2.

   plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

   Synonymsflame flowerflame-flowerTalinum aurantiacum

   Broaderwildflower

   Narrowernarrow-leaved flame flowerpigmy talinumrock pinkjewels-of-oparspiny talinum

   Part ofTalinum

Other forms of flameflower

plural

flameflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flameflower

What does flameflower mean?

flameflower means "a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flameflower?

flameflower has 4 syllables: fla-me-flo-wer. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for flameflower?

Close synonyms include kniphofia, tritoma, flame flower, flame-flower, flame flower. 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 flameflower a common word?

flameflower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.