old-maid's bonnet

What does old-maid's bonnet mean?

old-maid's bonnet means "stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers".

What is another word for old-maid's bonnet?

Close synonyms include wild lupine, sundial lupine, Indian beet, Lupinus perennis. 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 old-maid's bonnet a common word?

old-maid's bonnet 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 old-maid's bonnet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.