orange milkweed

Questions about orange milkweed

What does orange milkweed mean?

orange milkweed means "erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers".

What is another word for orange milkweed?

Close synonyms include butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root. 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 orange milkweed a common word?

orange milkweed 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.