leather flower

1. 1.

   scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals

   Synonymsvase-finevase vineClematis viorna

   Broaderclematis
2. 2.

   woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals

   SynonymsClematis versicolor

   Broaderclematis

Questions about leather flower

What does leather flower mean?

leather flower means "scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for leather flower?

Close synonyms include vase-fine, vase vine, Clematis viorna, Clematis versicolor. 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 leather flower a common word?

leather flower 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.