northern jacob's ladder

1. 1.

   perennial erect herb with white flowers; circumboreal

   SynonymsPolemonium boreale

   Broaderpolemonium

Questions about northern jacob's ladder

What does northern jacob's ladder mean?

northern jacob's ladder means "perennial erect herb with white flowers; circumboreal".

What is another word for northern jacob's ladder?

Close synonyms include Polemonium boreale. 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 northern jacob's ladder a common word?

northern jacob's ladder 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.