ornithogalum umbellatum

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   common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States

   Synonymsstarflowersleepy dicksummer snowflake

   Broaderstar-of-Bethlehem

Questions about ornithogalum umbellatum

What does ornithogalum umbellatum mean?

ornithogalum umbellatum means "common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States".

What is another word for ornithogalum umbellatum?

Close synonyms include starflower, sleepy dick, summer snowflake. 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 ornithogalum umbellatum a common word?

ornithogalum umbellatum 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.