inula helenium

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   tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally

   Synonymselecampane

   Broaderinula

Questions about inula helenium

What does inula helenium mean?

inula helenium means "tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally".

What is another word for inula helenium?

Close synonyms include elecampane. 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 inula helenium a common word?

inula helenium 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.