green adder's mouth

1. 1.

   North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals

   SynonymsMalaxis-unifoliaMalaxis ophioglossoides

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofMalaxis

Questions about green adder's mouth

What does green adder's mouth mean?

green adder's mouth means "North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals".

What is another word for green adder's mouth?

Close synonyms include Malaxis-unifolia, Malaxis ophioglossoides. 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 green adder's mouth a common word?

green adder's mouth 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.