mist-flower

What does mist-flower mean?

mist-flower means "rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium".

How many syllables are in mist-flower?

mist-flower has 3 syllables and divides as mist--flo-wer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mist-flower?

Close synonyms include mistflower, ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum. 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 mist-flower a common word?

mist-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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mist-flower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.