kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

1. 1.

   annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

   Synonymsprince's-featherprincess featherprince's-plumePolygonum orientale

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofPolygonum

Questions about kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

What does kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate mean?

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate means "annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America".

How many syllables are in kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate?

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate has 8 syllables: kis-s-me--o-ver--the--gar-den--gate. The stress falls on "gar".

What is another word for kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate?

Close synonyms include prince's-feather, princess feather, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale. 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 kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate a common word?

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate 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.