mournful widow

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   Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States

   Synonymssweet scabiouspincushion flowerScabiosa atropurpurea

   Broaderscabious

Questions about mournful widow

What does mournful widow mean?

mournful widow means "Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for mournful widow?

Close synonyms include sweet scabious, pincushion flower, Scabiosa atropurpurea. 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 mournful widow a common word?

mournful widow 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.