great knapweed

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   tall European perennial having purple flower heads

   Synonymsgreater knapweedCentaurea scabiosa

   Broaderknapweed

Questions about great knapweed

What does great knapweed mean?

great knapweed means "tall European perennial having purple flower heads".

What is another word for great knapweed?

Close synonyms include greater knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa. 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 great knapweed a common word?

great knapweed 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.