nigella damascena

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   European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers

   Synonymslove-in-a-mist

   Broadernigella

Questions about nigella damascena

What does nigella damascena mean?

nigella damascena means "European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers".

What is another word for nigella damascena?

Close synonyms include love-in-a-mist. 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 nigella damascena a common word?

nigella damascena 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.