meadow cranesbill

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   tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America

   SynonymsGeranium pratense

   Broadercranesbill

Questions about meadow cranesbill

What does meadow cranesbill mean?

meadow cranesbill means "tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America".

What is another word for meadow cranesbill?

Close synonyms include Geranium pratense. 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 meadow cranesbill a common word?

meadow cranesbill 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.