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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
helmetflower is a noun meaning "a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process
a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for helmetflower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.